Tourist Spots in Dispur, India

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.