Field notes
Travel Guides & Blog
Permits, seasonal weather, festival etiquette, and the cultural context behind Assam and Northeast India, written for travellers who want to go well prepared.
Latest guides
Plan with confidence
Practical reading for the road ahead, from wildlife timing to mountain packing.
Festivals
Festival etiquette in Assam
How to dress, where to stand, and when to photograph respectfully at community celebrations across the Brahmaputra valley.
Wildlife
Safari timing in Kaziranga
Best seasons, early-morning windows, and realistic expectations for seeing one-horned rhinos and the park's wider wildlife.
Packing
Mountain packing essentials
Layers, rain protection, and altitude-ready basics for Arunachal and Sikkim routes where weather shifts within a single day.
Field dispatch
Culture, craft, and community
Majuli's potters shape clay by hand along the riverbanks, and their wheels turn the same way they did for generations. The region's living root bridges in Meghalaya are grown over decades, and the tea gardens of upper Assam hold whole villages within their rows of workers and harvest seasons.
Read these essays before you visit. They explain what you are looking at, why it matters to the people who live with it, and how to be a considerate guest in the places you pass through.