Festivals are organised by the Department of Tourism, Govt.
of Assam, every year to encourage tourists to visit Assam.
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Elephant Festival
For conservation and
protection of Asiatic elephant a festival is organized
every year at Kaziranga National Park jointly by the
Forest Department and Tourism Department, Govt. of
Assam. The festival includes many activities by domestic
elephants and various cultural programmes.
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Brahmaputra Beach Festival
Coinciding with Magh Bihu, the Assamese harvest festival,
this event offers you a scintillating outdoor experience.
Held on the beautiful, white riverine beaches of the river
Brahmaputra, it is a perfect blend of traditional contests
like elephant race, kite flying and modern adventure sports
like wind surfing, rafting, canoeing, kayaking, para-dropping,
hot air ballooning, beach volleyball and beach cricket.
Dehing Patkai Festival
This festival in eastern Assam derives its name from the
lofty Patkai range and the playful Dehing River. It is a
heady cocktail of ethnic fairs, golfing, tea heritage tours,
adventures sports, wildlife excursion and down-mwmory-lane
trips to World War II cemeteries and the Stilwell Road,
once the passage to the golden land of Myanmar. It is organized
in the month of January every year.
Tea Festival
Celebrated every year
in Jorhat, this festival is all about tea, music and
merriment. It’s a world of festivity with traditional
hospitality, jungle safaris, tea garden visits, golf,
and the local cuisine, rafting in turbulent rivers,
angling, shopping and cultural extravaganza. It’s
a harmonious blend of business and pleasure. Come
and meet the warm hearted people of Assam and savour
Assam's beauty and cultural diversity.
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Rongali Utsav
Bihu is the most important
festival of Assam. It is celebrated with joy and abundance
by all Assamese people irrespective of caste, creed,
religion, faith and belief. Bihu can be broadly divided
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Bohag Bihu which augurs the wish for a good harvest
because this is the time when farmers start sowing,
Kaati Bihu which is observed to mark the cutting and
binding of grains and Magh Bihu which marks the season
of harvesting of grains. Assam celebrates three Bihu
festivals to mark different agricultural seasons.
The Bihu dance is an integral part of the festival.
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