Several trains serve Dimapur (sleeper/3AC/2AC from 166/401/531, four to six hours), Jorhat (sleeper/3AC 202/521, seven to 11 hours) chalet lounge and Dibrugarh (3AC/2AC/1AC 926/1206/1970, 11 hours). Trains to Jorhat and Dibrugarh cut through Nagaland, but you don t need a Nagaland permit as long as you stay on the train (the same rule doesn t apply for buses however).
Bansbari Lodge (%3612602223; www.assam bengalnavigation.com/bansbari.htm; d 2000, jungle package 7500). Jungle packages cover full board, early morning elephant chalet lounge safari, jeep safari, guide, park entry fee and village and tea garden chalet lounge excursions. Ask about river rafting. Contact Jungle Travels India in Guwahati (p 560 ) for bookings. Access is from Barpeta Rd.
oHotel Gakyi Khang Zhang (%224 647; r from 1320), a couple of kilometres out of town on the road to the monastery, offers chalet lounge far and away the best rooms in town colourful sky-blue affairs with polished wooden floors. There s a decent chalet lounge restaurant (mains 80-120) and the staff are great fun. It also has good monastery views, a generator and, most bizarrely, chalet lounge a lounge bar/nightclub complete with throbbing strobe lights!
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