Luxury Jorhat Tours

A lush green tea estate spread across rolling hillside in Assam, India's tea heartland.

Overview

Jorhat At A Glance

Jorhat is the tea capital of Assam, and the base for upper Assam and Majuli. The country around it is one continuous tea garden, laid out by British planters from the 1850s, with the old bungalows still standing among the bushes. Several are now heritage hotels. The world's oldest tea research institute is here, and one of the oldest golf clubs in Asia. A short drive away, the Hoollongapar sanctuary is the only place in India named after an ape, home to the western hoolock gibbon. From Nimati Ghat, north of town, a ferry crosses the Brahmaputra to Majuli. East along the river, the monuments of Sivasagar mark the capital of the Ahom kingdom, which ruled Assam for six hundred years. Jorhat has its own airport, so a trip can start or end here rather than in Guwahati.

Where To Stay: Thengal Manor, Banyan Grove, Jorhat
Continue To: Guwahati, Kaziranga, Majuli

What To See

What To See In Jorhat

Jorhat's real highlights are what a private guide builds each day around.

Fort / Palace / Heritage

Sivasagar Monuments

The monuments of the Ahom kingdom at Sivasagar — the oval Rang Ghar pavilion, the Talatal Ghar palace, and the tall Sivadol temple.

The Rang Ghar, an Ahom-era stone pavilion in Sivasagar, Assam, with a bird perched on its domed roof.

Nature / Wildlife

Jorhat Tea Estates

The colonial tea gardens around Jorhat — laid out from the 1850s, still worked, with the old planters' bungalows among the bushes.

Workers carry baskets along a path through a lush green tea plantation.

Nature / Wildlife

Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary

A patch of rainforest near Jorhat, the only place in India named after an ape — home to the western hoolock gibbon.

A gibbon hangs by one arm from a branch in the forest canopy.

Culinary · Half day

Assam Tea Estate Tour & Tasting

A guided walk through a working tea garden near Jorhat with the estate manager, ending in the factory and a tasting.

Women pluck tea leaves among the bushes in a lush green Assam tea field.

How To Travel

Journeys Through Jorhat

Every journey comes with a private guide and driver for each day on the road. Full details live on each journey's own page.

A large wooden boat sits on the wide expanse of the Brahmaputra River in Assam.

8 Nights

Slow Assam

Guwahati · Jorhat · Kaziranga

Green fields stretch towards distant hills under a broad cloudy sky in Assam.

7 Nights

Assam in Depth

Guwahati · Jorhat · Kaziranga

A man rows a wooden boat through flowering water lilies on a Majuli backwater at sunset, Assam.

6 Nights

Classic Assam

Guwahati · Jorhat · Kaziranga

An elephant walks a bare track through the grassland of Kaziranga National Park, Assam.

6 Nights

Kaziranga Photography Safari

Guwahati · Jorhat · Kaziranga

A sweeping tea plantation covers a hillside in Assam under a wide sky.

5 Nights

Assam Tea & Heritage

Guwahati · Jorhat · Kaziranga

Where To Stay

Where To Stay In Jorhat

Stays are chosen for the setting and the service, then matched to the pace of your route.

resort · luxury

Thengal Manor

★★★★

Thengal Manor is a country house in the tea gardens outside Jorhat, built in 1880 by the Barooah family, who still own it. The house is little changed. Wide verandas, high ceilings, old furniture, family portraits, a library. The first Assamese-language daily newspaper was printed here. There are only a handful of rooms, so it is quiet, and meals are Assamese home cooking. The gardens run to the tea, and a walk before breakfast is part of the stay. Majuli, the gibbon sanctuary and Sivasagar are all day trips from here. It is the way to stay in the tea country rather than pass through it, and the luxury choice for a Jorhat leg built around heritage and tea.

The colonial tea bungalow of Banyan Grove on the Gatoonga Tea Estate, Jorhat, seen across its lawn.

resort · premium

Banyan Grove, Jorhat

★★★

Banyan Grove is a colonial tea bungalow on the Gatoonga estate, a few kilometres from Jorhat, run as a small heritage hotel. It is a working planter's bungalow: a long low house with a deep veranda, set in a garden among the tea. The rooms are large and plain, in a period style, and the food is Assamese and planter's-club English. The estate around it is still picked and processed, and a walk through the gardens with the manager is easily arranged. It is a short drive to Nimati Ghat for the Majuli ferry and to the gibbon sanctuary. It is the premium option for a Jorhat stay that puts the tea garden first, at a gentler price than the manor.

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