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Dehing Patkai

Upper Assam’s rainforest, coal towns and the old war road.

Forest path landscape, representative of Upper Assam rainforest
Dehing Patkai, Assam
Type
Lowland rainforest belt
Wildlife
Elephant, hornbill, gibbon
Heritage
Coal towns, Ledo-Stilwell road
Gateway
Dibrugarh / Tinsukia

Dehing Patkai is the rainforest belt of Upper Assam, a landscape of evergreen forest, coal-town heritage and the old Ledo-Stilwell road to Myanmar. Elephants and hornbills move through it; the Jeypore forest block is the classic birding walk.

Pair it with Margherita’s coal museum, Namphake’s Tai-Phake Buddhist village and Digboi’s oil heritage for a full Upper Assam loop.

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Quick answers

Dehing Patkai at a glance

What pairs with Dehing Patkai?

Namphake monastery, Digboi refinery and the Dibru-Saikhowa boat safari, all within a day of each other.

Practicals

Permits & season

No entry permit: Assam is open to all travellers, Indian and foreign.

Best months run October to April; the monsoon (June to September) is intensely green but slows the hill roads.

When to go

Plan around these months

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Nearby

Close enough to combine

Things to do

What you're here for

Jeypore forest walks

Rainforest birding with a local guide.

The war road

Ledo, where the Stilwell Road to Myanmar began.

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