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Top 10 sights in Guwahati

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   Kamakhya Temple

   A temple on Nilachal hill in Guwahati, one of the oldest shakti pithas and the most important centre of tantric worship in India. It closes for three days each June during the Ambubachi festival, when the goddess is said to menstruate.

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   Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra

   A cultural complex in Guwahati named after the poet and religious reformer who shaped Assamese Vaishnavism in the sixteenth century. It holds a museum, a library and open-air stages, and is the largest such institution in northeast India.

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   Umananda Temple

   A Shiva temple on a small island in the Brahmaputra, reached by ferry from the city — often described as the smallest inhabited river island in the world. Golden langurs, rare and endangered, live in its trees.

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   Assam State Museum

   A museum at the southern end of the Dighalipukhuri tank in central Guwahati in Assam in India. The Kamarupa Anusandhan Samiti founded it in 1940, with Kanaklal Barua as its first president.

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   Doul Govinda Temple

   A Krishna temple on the north bank of the Brahmaputra at North Guwahati, below Chandrabharati hill and usually reached by ferry. Its Doul festival at Holi draws worshippers from across Assam.

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   Madan Kamdev

   A ninth-century archaeological site north of Guwahati, where carved stone from a Pala-period temple complex lies scattered over half a kilometre. The erotic panels among it have earned the place comparison with Khajuraho.

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   Dirgheshwari temple

   A temple on the north bank of the Brahmaputra built in brick by an eighteenth-century Ahom king, and counted as a shakta pitha. Older sculpture is cut into the rocks around it.

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   Gauhati War Cemetery

   A Commonwealth war cemetery in Guwahati holding those who died in the military hospitals here during the Burma campaign. Most of the graves are of men brought back from the fighting at Kohima and Imphal.

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   Bhimeswar Dham

   A Hindu temple on the Dakini hills near Pamohi in Guwahati in Assam, beside the Deepor Beel wetland. Shiva is said to have appeared here to overcome the demon Bhimasura.

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    Garchuk Lachit Garh

    An Ahom defensive rampart southwest of Guwahati in Assam in India. It was raised about 1669-70 in the time of Lachit Borphukan and runs some three kilometres from the Fatasil hills to the hills in the south.

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