Assam City Guide
Travel to Digboi, Assam's oil city, and discover its splendorous past. Tour Digboi nestling in the sylvan, lap of 'Mother Nature' and thus forming a magnificent city of the Assam.
Tucked amid the blue hills and gently undulating plains carpeted with emerald green tea plantations is a place which still retains its colonial ambience. Digboi Assam's oil city with a history going back to the early 18th century, when oil was first discovered in the area. The place still continues as a tiny island of Raj culture. Digboi boasts of two modern wonders of the world-- a hundred year old oil-field still producing and the world's oldest operating oil refinery and also British life-style complemented by clubs and Golf Courses. This place is well connected by road, rail & air communication. NH-38 runs through Digboi. The nearest airport of Dibrugarh is 65 km from Digboi. A/C and non A/C deluxe coaches ply regularly from Guwahati to Digboi both day and night.
Getting There:
By Air: The nearest airport of Dibrugarh is 65 km from Digboi.
By Rail: Tinsukia is nearest railhead from here.
By Road: NH-38 runs through Digboi. A/C and non A/C deluxe coaches ply regularly from Guwahati to Digboi both day and night.
Tourist Attractions
National Oil Park
Digboi oil-field is not just an oil-field, but an oil museum and a wildlife sanctuary of surpassed beauty. One can stand near the continent's oldest oil well-- the Discovery Well completed in 1889 AD. In the evening you may also bump across a herd of elephants or a royal Bengal Tiger, besides some rare species of birds.
War Cemetry
The most dramatic event in Digboi's history took place during the World War II days when the belligerent Japanese got closer and were within three days marching distance of Digboi. These images come back as one kneels at the headstones at the Digboi War Cemetry, praying for a young life nipped in the bud at battle in a strange land far, far away from home...
Dibru Saikhowa Wildlife Sanctuary
This sanctuary is a safe haven for extremely rare white winged wood duck and many migratory birds. Speciality of Dibru Saikhowa is it's wild horses, called Feral Horses.
Margherita
14 kms east of Digboi, this is the centre of Tea Gardens, Plywood factories and coal mines.
Namdapha National Park
100 km east of Digboi in Arunachal Pradesh beyond Margherita is a true wilderness--not widely known and is a vast stretch of enchanting beauty of lush green vegetation.
