Kolkata and Assam itinerary: 11 days in Kolkata, Majuli, Kaziranga and Guwahati
11 days · 10 nights · 4 stays · sample itinerary
Eleven days from Kolkata to the Brahmaputra: three nights in Kolkata for the colonial centre and the old north of the city, three aboard a river cruise boat by way of Majuli island, three at Kaziranga for the one-horned rhino, and a night in Guwahati.
It is a sample itinerary — a starting point, not a timetable. Each night has a place to stay, named where one is known; check that it is open and has room before you book. No flight or train is named, and the times in the plan are placeholders. Open it in the planner and it becomes a trip of your own, starting a month from today, with the places to see already on their days.
Day by day
Day 1
Stay: The Glenburn Penthouse, Kolkata
3 nights
Day 2
Dalhousie Square and the Writers’ Building
Kumartuli, the potters’ quarter
College Street book market
Park Street Cemetery
Victoria Memorial
Day 3
The Jain temple complex in North Kolkata
Marble Palace
Jorasanko, Tagore’s family home
Mother House
Day 4
Kolkata → Jorhat
Journey · 08:00–10:00
Then about an hour by road to the boat. How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: MV Rudra Singha, Majuli
3 nights
Day 5
Majuli island: the monastery at Auniati and the villages
Day 7
Majuli → Kaziranga
By road · 10:00–11:00
Leave the boat at Silghat; about an hour by road to the lodge. Times approximate.
Stay: Diphlu River Lodge, Kaziranga
3 nights
Day 8
Kaziranga jeep safari, central and western ranges
Day 9
Kaziranga jeep safari, eastern range
An Assam tea garden
Between safaris.
Day 10
Kaziranga → Guwahati
Journey · 09:00–14:00
How is not stated. Times approximate.
Stay: Vivanta by Taj, Guwahati
1 night
Day 11
Guwahati → Kolkata
Journey · 10:00–18:00
Added so the trip ends where it began, in Kolkata: change it to wherever you go next. How is not stated. Times approximate.
How the route runs
Three nights in Kolkata: Dalhousie Square, Kumartuli and College Street one day, North Kolkata’s Jain temple, Marble Palace and Jorasanko the next. Then to Jorhat and aboard a river cruise boat for three nights, by way of Majuli island and a day cruising downstream. Off the boat at Silghat for three nights at Kaziranga, and a last night in Guwahati.
What is left for you to fill in
No flight or train is named, and every time in the plan is a placeholder, marked approximate: choose the services that suit, and set the drive times with whoever is driving. Where a journey says how is not stated, choose how. The places to see have no time of day; add one if it helps.
A stay that reads "not named" is a night with no place to stay yet: choose one. A stay whose note lists others has alternatives worth comparing. Check that each is open and has room for your dates before you book.