Monday, 21 April 2014

Dehing Patkai Festival

Dehing Patkai Festival

DEHING PATKAI FESTIVAL ASSAMTourism Department organizes another festival around the time of   Maagh/Bhogali Bihu. Known as the Dehing Patkai Festival, this festival is named after the Dehing River and Patkai range in eastern Assam. This Festival is celebrated for a few days in the month of January at Lekhapani, in the Tinsukia district of Assam. This festival offers an invigorating blend of tribal fairs, tea heritage tours, golfing, adventure sports, hiking and wildlife.  Tourists and visitors are allowed to participate in various sporting activities.

The Dehing Patkai Festival offers the tourists and visitors with a wide range of adventure sports on the dotted islands and the banks of the Brahmaputra River. Angling, kayaking and parasailing are some of the adventure sports that are conducted for the tourists. Trips to the green tea gardens and the Digboi oil field are also arranged for the visitors. Tourists are also taken on excursion and wildlife safari. Trip to Stilwell Road and its cemeteries is also organized to recall the history of Second World War. The main aim of the festival is to save the forest regions of the state and to protect the elephants from encroachment. The festival has also recently started creating awareness among the villagers in the state of Assam.

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