Dhiraj Deka

Chandubi Lake: Located just 65 KM from Guwahati town at the foot of Garo hills surrounded by Assam and Meghalaya a earthquake born Chandubi natural lake is blessed with rich flora and fauna. Chandubi is relatively pour and less polluted as it is out of the reach of so called modern civilization. The place is calm and peaceful covered by deep forest, tea garden and small and distinct villages. Chandubi has covered a total of 2000 hectors of land. It is natural sight seeing and one of the best picnic spot for the visitors of the state. This lake attracts sizable amount of migratory birds during winter. The beauty of the lake and its surroundings lays a charm that lures a huge number of tourists who visit the place to relax in the lap of nature. Reportedly, the lake came into being on June 12, 1897 as a result of a devastating quake. It is unfortunate to note that the tectonic beel(lake) reportedly witnessed gradual decreasing of water area from 288.7 ha to about 712.0 ha wi...

AN ADVENTUROUS TREKKING TO DZUKOU VALLEY Dzukou Valley, a trekking which bored a deep impression in ouir heart that can’t be forgotten. Being bored of monotonous 9 to 5 job, we needed a desperate break. What’s better than exploring our own NE- the paradise unexplored. So we decided to have an adventurous trekking to Dzukou valley which is situated at Nagaland-Manipur border. From the beginning, we were facing mishaps. We were late in starting by an hour or two from our pre-planned itenery. We reached the base station ‘Viswema’ near about 2pm. From Viswema there was a unpaved road leading to one-fifth of the destination. Prior to reaching Viswema, due to heavy rain there was a landslide. Our cars could not go up and dropped us just 1km away from Viswema. We heard no other option other than walking the steep road. We heard that the route via Viswema takes around 6 hours on an average. By our physical capability we assessed that we would make it out by 7-7:30 pm. But we didn’t hav...