Winter in Assam is fine and fair for the tourists to enjoy her natural beauty and bounty. The north eastern state has no death of festivals to beckon the guests from home and abroad in this foggy season. Amid the fag end of the biting coldwaves in mid-January, Assam holds the Dehing Patkai festival in Tinsukia district to promote tourism with huge fairs, tea heritage tours, golfing, adventure sports and trips to Stilwell Road and World War II cemeteries.
The spotlight falls on Lekhpani area in the patkai range where the three days festival pulls huge tourists and visitors who take no less delights in fun and feast apart from elephant ride. The tourists, mostly, never miss the angling, kayaking and parasailing in the beautiful natural zone.
Some of the tourists also catch a glimpse of the historic oil town Digboi as they thronged Lekhapani to visit the Dehing Patkai festival. The government-sponsored festival is named after the enchanting Patkai range and Dehing River which took place for the first time in 2002 where in his opening speech the then President APJ Abdul Kalam spoke of the potentials for tourism development in the catchment areas of the north eastern state. Since then, the festival has been an occasion for the tourists to be overwhelmed by the biodiversity and the anthropological richness of Assam.
Ledo and Margherita are two most important towns for the tourists to visit during the festival. Both the towns now keep throbbing with the activities of a full fledged industrial hub in the eastern most part of the state.
Dehing Patkai Festival
Sadiya, Assam