DIGBOI- MARGHERITA  

DAY 01

Arrive Digboi and check in at Guest House. 
Digboi is a picturesque small town in the eastern most tip of Assam with an enchanting past and still more a bewitching present . The town is said to have derived its name from the passionate call of Mr. Good Enough of Mckillp Stewart & Co. of UK upon his youthful workers to dig a oil well - "Dig- boy- Dig". Digboi still continues as a tiny island of Raj culture. The Indo-Myanmar border with the celebrated Pangsu pass is nearby . 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.
DAY 02 After breakfast we visit the National Oil Park.

Going up the hill we'll come across oil derricks of various types ., from the tripod style to the modern style and the pump house and other devices still declaring the glory and marvel of the now outdated innovations of the last forties. A few yards away there stands in a protected area Well No.1 or THE DISCOVERY WELL , continent's oldest oil well completed in 1889. The oil field here is unique in the world as it has gone on producing oil for well over a hundred years . But beware ! Herds of wild tuskers may be around or a lone leopard may be lying in wait for its prey in the grove near about us . Birds of a hundred varieties will cheer us throughout.
DAY 03 Today we visit Margherita 14 kms. East of Digboi - the center of tea gardens , plywood factories and coal mines . Margherita is open, warm and welcoming set in natural surroundings with a lot of picnic spots dotting the sandy banks of the rive Dehing . Vast areas of tea plantations are seen all along the road in this part. Growing tea provides much of the greenery and the sensuous beauty of this unique land . Cool misty and away from the mainland, to breathe in the aroma of fresh tea leaves is an experience both rare and heart warming . The tea gardens here are perhaps the best in the World. The hills of Arunachal Pradesh merge into many of these gardens . We regale ourselves with a cup of very fresh tea in a garden manager's bungalow.

After a  short walk from the Namdang Tea Garden we arrive at a Tangsha tribe village We go round the village observing the passionate rhythm of these tribes.

Way back we stop at the 18 hole golf course at Digboi, laid out more that a century ago by the Scotch adventurers. Overnight stay at Digboi.