Home › Assam › Tourist Spots in Dispur, India

Tourist Spots in Dispur, India

                          Tourist Spots in Dispur

To the south of Dispur is the mythologically important site of Basistha Ashram and the Sankardeva Kalashetra, a cultural center created in the 1990s. Next to Dispur is the ancient township of Jatia.

Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, opened in 1998, has a museum of Assam's peoples, an open-air theatre and a heritage village. Other places within a short drive are the Assam State Museum, the Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden in Guwahati's Hengrabari forest, the Kamakhya temple on Nilachal Hill and Umananda, a temple on a river island in the Brahmaputra reached by ferry.

Source: Assam Tourism, Government of Assam.