Every place below is catalogued with highlights, best time to visit and trip-planning basics — most with their own full destination guide covering routes, seasons and things to do in depth.
Explore carefully selected destinations across Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Meghalaya.
One-horned rhinos & elephant-back trails through tall grassland.
One of the 51 Shakti Peeths, on Nilachal Hill overlooking the Brahmaputra.
The world's largest river island, home to Assam's Vaishnavite satras.
Capital of the six-century Ahom dynasty, and its UNESCO-listed royal burial grounds.
UNESCO World Heritage tiger reserve on the Bhutan foothills.
River rafting and angling on the Jia Bhoreli, near Tezpur.
The 'city of eternal romance' on the Brahmaputra's north bank.
Feral horses and river islands at Assam's easternmost edge.
Assam's only hill station, ringed by Dimasa & Naga villages.
A Tai Phake Buddhist village, quietly unlike anywhere else in Assam.
India's largest monastery, birthplace of the 6th Dalai Lama's lineage.
Apatani rice-fish paddies and a UNESCO-tentative cultural landscape.
A valley of hot springs, apple orchards & a 17th-century dzong.
India's most biodiverse park, from lowland rainforest to snow peaks.
Arunachal's capital, framed by the 14th-century Ita Fort.
A Tibetan-Buddhist valley folded into the Siang range, with a prayer-flag bridge at nearby Lamang.
One of India's least-visited districts, home of the Idu Mishmi.
Arunachal's oldest town, on the wide Siang (Brahmaputra headwaters).
A Adi-heartland town with suspension bridges over the Siyom.
The first place in India to see the sunrise.
India's easternmost outpost and India's first village, both in the same remote day.
A pine-and-orchid hamlet bypassed by the main Tawang route.
The Golden Pagoda — a striking Buddhist temple near the Assam-Arunachal border.
Remote high-altitude alpine valleys above 11,000 feet, near the Indo-China border.
Wancho tribal heartland, with a headhunting heritage similar to Nagaland's Konyak.
The WWII battleground now capital of Nagaland, ringed by Angami villages.
A high-altitude valley famous for its seasonal wildflower bloom.
India's first 'green village', an Angami settlement that banned hunting.
Konyak headhunter heritage, in a village split by the Myanmar border.
The 'Scotland of the East' — pine hills, lakes & a live-music scene.
One of the wettest places on earth, laced with waterfalls.
Asia's cleanest village, run entirely by community effort.
A river so clear the boats look like they're floating on air.
A living bridge grown from rubber-fig roots, reached by ~3,500 steps.
A turquoise swimming waterfall in the lesser-visited Jaintia Hills.