shopping in vail village Forty-five kilometres north of Kohima is the small town of Tuophema, which can make a useful overnig

Sumos have their booking counters in Jenkins Rd and run to Bomdila in Arunachal Pradesh ( 250, eight hours) and Tawang ( 500, 15hrs). Bargain for a private taxi in the same street for the Eco-Camp at Potasali ( 1500) and Kaziranga ( 1500). A little further on is the bus station (Jenkins shopping in vail village Rd) with frequent services to Guwahati ( 140 to 150, five hours), Jorhat shopping in vail village ( 100, four hours) shopping in vail village and Kohora for Kaziranga ( 45, two hours). shopping in vail village

Despite shopping in vail village being an oil-service town, Sivasagar exudes a residual elegance from its time as the capital of the Ahom dynasty that ruled Assam for more than 600 years. The name comes from waters of Shiva , the graceful central feature of a rectangular reservoir dug in 1734 by Ahom Queen Ambika. Three typical Ahom temple towers rise proudly above the tank s partly wooded southern banks to the west Devidol, to the east Vishnudol and in the centre, the 33m-high Shivadol Mandir, India s tallest Shiva temple. Its uppermost trident balances upon an egg-shaped shopping in vail village feature whose golden covering the British reputedly tried (but failed) to pilfer in 1823.

Forty-five kilometres north of Kohima is the small town of Tuophema, which can make a useful overnight stop on the road to Mon if you leave Kohima late in the day. Although the town itself is nothing special, the