Majuli - The River Island
Vaishnavite satras, mask-makers and pottery villages on the Brahmaputra's great river island.
- Duration
- 1-2 nights
- State
- Assam
- From
- ₹7,500 /person
- per person · 1 night · ferry, island transport & satra visits. Indicative - we quote on your dates.
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Majuli is reached by ferry and runs on a slower clock than the mainland. Its satras - monastic centres founded in the Vaishnavite tradition - are still living institutions, with monks who dance, drum and make the extraordinary papier-mâché masks the island is known for.
Stay in a bamboo cottage, sit in on an evening prayer, watch a mask being built from clay and cow dung and cloth, and visit the potters at Salmora who still work without a wheel. The island is also slowly eroding, which lends the whole visit a certain weight.
What's in it
- 01Ferry crossing to the island
- 02Satra visit and evening prayer
- 03Mask-making workshop at Samaguri
- 04Wheel-less pottery at Salmora
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