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Tawang Monastery on its ridge beside a rhino on the Kaziranga grassland — the two halves of the route
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Private tour · Arunachal Pradesh & Assam

Tawang + Kaziranga Tour

The widest contrast the region offers: 15,200 ft at Bumla and 262 ft in the Kaziranga grassland, inside a single week.

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Duration
From 7 days
length to suit you
Starts from
Guwahati
Highest point
15,200 ft
Bumla Pass
Best season
November – April

When to go

November – April

March and April are the sweet spot — the park is open and Sela is reliably clear.

Tour type
Private tour
Starts from
Guwahati
Permit
Inner Line Permit; separate army permit for Bumla
Difficulty
Moderate

On the trip

What you’ll come home talking about

  1. Tawang Monastery and Bumla Pass

  2. Sela Pass and the Dirang valleys

  3. Two safari days in Kaziranga

  4. One vehicle and one crew across both legs

Altitude along the road

Highest point Bumla Pass, 15,200 ft

  1. Guwahati
  2. Dirang
  3. Sela Pass
  4. Tawang
  5. Bumla Pass
  6. Kaziranga

The route

Where the road takes you

The stops this trip is built around, in order. Your day-by-day plan, stays and pace come with your free quote.

  1. Guwahati

    Start · 180 ft · Kamrup

    The gateway to the whole region and worth a day of its own. Kamakhya sits on Nilachal hill above the city, one of the most important Shakta temples in India; Umananda occupies a small island in the Brahmaputra reached by ferry.

    The red domes and courtyard of the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, with people crossing the flagstones
    The Kamakhya temple courtyard, Guwahati
  2. Dirang

    5,118 ft · West Kameng

    A valley town of apple orchards, kiwi vines and hot springs, with a 500-year-old dzong above the old settlement. Most Tawang itineraries stop here to break the climb, which is also the sensible way to handle the altitude.

    The Dirang valley with a river running through it, the town spread along the far bank below forested ridges
    The Dirang valley, where most Tawang runs break the climb
  3. Sela Pass

    13,681 ft · Between Dirang and Tawang

    The only road crossing into Tawang, and one of the highest motorable passes in the country. Sela Lake sits frozen beside it for much of the winter. Jaswant Garh, the memorial to a soldier who held this ground alone in 1962, is a short drive below on the Tawang side.

    The painted gate at Sela Pass standing in deep snow, with a mass of prayer flags strung across the foreground
    The gate at the top of Sela, under snow
  4. Tawang

    10,000 ft · Tawang district

    The monastery here was founded in the 1680s and remains the largest in India and the second largest in the world, holding an eight-metre gilded Buddha and a library of manuscripts. The town below it sits in a bowl of ridges that hold snow well into April.

    Tawang Monastery's white and gold buildings spread along a forested ridge, with the town below and blue ranges behind
    Tawang Monastery on its ridge above the town
  5. Bumla Pass

    15,200 ft · India–China border, north of Tawang

    The highest point any of our routes reach. The road simply stops at the trijunction, where Indian and Chinese posts face each other across a line of stones. Sangetsar — usually called Madhuri Lake — lies on the same excursion.

    A lone green post hut on a wide snowfield at Bumla, with snow ranges and a bank of cloud behind it
    The post at Bumla, 4,633 m, where the road ends
  6. Kaziranga

    262 ft · Golaghat & Nagaon

    A World Heritage site holding roughly two-thirds of the world's greater one-horned rhino, along with wild buffalo, swamp deer and one of the densest tiger populations anywhere. The park splits into ranges — Central, Western, Eastern — and each drives differently, which is why one safari is never enough.

    A one-horned rhino standing in the grass at the water's edge in Kaziranga, forested hills beyond
    A one-horned rhino at the water's edge

Reviews

In their own words

Written to us by travellers after their trips. Each card names where they went.

  • Mrs. Mridula, photographed above a lake in Arunachal Pradesh

    Mrs. Mridula

    9 days / 8 nights · Tawang & Kaziranga

    “They don't just plan trips; they take ownership of your experience. Most importantly, they listen, they care, and they go the extra mile when it matters the most.”
    • A traveller at a railing above a still lake ringed by green meadow and forested hills
    • A couple under the Shungetser Lake sign at 12,467 feet, prayer flags and the lake behind them
    • A couple standing in terraced fields under monsoon cloud, forested hills behind
    • A traveller with a bowl of lunch at a camp table on a river beach, prayer flags strung across the water
    • A couple on the steps below a large black domed monument under a bright sky
  • + many more

    happy, satisfied travellers.

    These are the ones who sat down and wrote it out for us.

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