Ashes & Diamonds

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.  ~Ansel Adams

An hour’s drive at the max from the small town of Diphu is a natural river park called Siloni in Assam, India. As the regular swarm of visitors busy themselves bathing in the river or cooking around it, a few women draped in their rugged Karbi dress hunch over the clean water, looking for fresh water snails and collecting them on a jar or a basket. Siloni in itself isn’t a star attraction and it’s best to travel to Diphu in the month of February when the annual Karbi Youth Festival takes place at Taralangso – a 10 minute drive from Karbi Anglong.
The nearest airport is Gopinath Bordoloi Airport in Guwahati. Trains leave early morning for Diphu from Guwahati and it takes a couple of hours to reach Diphu and offers splendid views through the journey.