MY ROAD JOURNEY FROM SHILLONG TO KAZIRANGA.

                     MY ROAD JOURNEY FROM SHILLONG TO KAZIRANGA....

On the way to Jorabat from Nangpoh.

Plan of trip : GUWAHATI-SHILLONG,CHERRANJEE,MANSYNRAM-SHILLONG- KAZIRANGA (via NAOGAON)-GUWAHATI.

At Nangpoh.

At Salmara.

Around Naogaon.

While we left from Guwahati to Shillong ,it was almost dark...roads were very much chokked with dust from the road construction site ;So, I made it a point to enjoy the road journey across from Meghalaya region into Assam region on our return journey.We had to start very early from Shillong around 7:30am. ; We made three stopovers on the way - The St. Mary's Cathedral,Shillong, Ward Lake Shillong , before we hit the road on,for our journey to Kaziranga.....There was huge jam on the road due to election result declaration( people here seemed ,very much involved with the electoral process).We stopped at Woodland Dhaba,Nangpoh.....Its the only option on the way in this region. But truely,enjoyed the fried Momos & a cup of tea to continue on..................
    We continue thru' the newly constructed road across the high mountains covered in Bamboo shoots,dense jungle areas which have been, often cut thru' to make passage for double lane road construction..................... Its end of winter & the region looked dry & dull except for the greenary around to cool off our journey; The dust often engulfed our Inova car & we could hardly see anything infront. I had a very different imagination of this land,But.................Maybe after the double lanning work gets over people travelling thru' this region can enjoy their drive ,but till then its a mess & suffering ; But I wonder!!! with this massive infrastructure development work ,will come a lot of destruction of the beautiful landscape of this region....already its showing up; Hope the authorities take note of it to protect the serene landscape alongside the development work.
      The Barapani lake was really a lovely site....Since we didn't have time,we cancelled the idea of boating in the lake & moved on; We continued upto JORABAT from were we took the diversion onto the newly constructed JORABAT-NAOGAON-TEZPUR EXPRESSWAY.At Jorabat, one side of the road is Meghalaya & otherside is Assam.....each have its unique look; After Jorabat,came SALMARA.

At BAGURI RANGE OF KAZIRANGA.

 SALMARA-NAOGAON is 12kms distance on the expressway;SALMARA-KAZIRANGA is110kms distance. We had lunch at a newly constructed punjabi dhaba close to naogoan.We saw only 2 eattery by the side of this expressway(AH-1).Upto Tezpur this road is too good to drive thru'( yet no toll to be paid)....After Tezpur,its a single road(NH-37) & the traffic was really hapazard.....until we entered the Kaziranga Forest area at Burapahar range.Since we had booked our accomodation at Assam Tourism guest house"ARANYA" we had to continue upto the Kohora range of Kaziranga National Forest ,crossing thru' Baguri range too...It was almost 5:50pm when we reached our guest house....

Total Journey time : 8/9 hours on the road (depending on the traffic flow from Shillong-Guwahati).