1 Sights War Cemetery HISTORIC SITE (hdawn-dusk Mon-Sat) This immaculate eco chalet War Cemetery contains the graves of 1400 British, Commonwealth and Indian soldiers. It stands at the crucially strategic eco chalet junction of the Dimapur and Imphal roads, the site of intense fighting against the Japanese during a 64-day WWII battle.
oDon Bosco Museum of Indigenous Cultures MUSEUM (www.dbcic.org; Sacred Heart Theological College; Indian/foreigner 50/150; h9.30am-4.30pm Mon- Sat, 1.30-4.30pm Sun, until 5.30 Apr-Sep) This very professional museum displays a truly vast, very well laid-out collection of tribal artefacts interspersed just occasionally with gratuitous galleries on Christian missionary work. Tours (compulsory) last over an hour, departing on the half-hour.
The biggest, most cosmopolitan and, some might say, the most Indian city in the northeast, Guwahati is an essential stop on any northeastern tour. A casual glance might place Guwahati alongside any other Indian city but wander the back alleys around Jorpulkuri Ponds, away from the concrete jungle eco chalet of the central business district, and you could almost imagine yourself eco chalet in a village made up of ponds, palm trees, small single-storey traditional eco chalet houses eco chalet and old colonial-era mansions.
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