Travel writers on the Brahmaputra, the Ganges and our ships. ABN holds the Indian National Tourism Award for Innovation, 2004–05.
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ABN holds the Indian National Tourism Award for Innovation, 2004–05.
Excerpts from articles about Assam Bengal Navigation. Each links to the full piece at its source.
The morning after my walking tour of Kolkata, I boarded a motorized launch from a riverside quay to the Rajmahal, the “King’s Palace” in Hindi.
Read the article →When I arrive in northeastern India to sail down the Brahmaputra, the quality of light is startling. The river gleams like a mirror of Assam’s cloudless sky, with the sun sinking in front of me and the moon rising at my back.
Read the article →“You have to recognize the waters. Here, GPS and maps don't work, as the islands appear and disappear and the depths keep changing,” says Bimal Mondol, the shipmaster who expertly steers our vessel, the ABN Charaidew II, across the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India.
Read the article →Ce matin, le jour peine à se lever, un brouillard intense a kidnappé le décor. La grande baie vitrée de la cabine s'ouvre sur une estampe orientale. La main du peintre a estompé la cime des arbres et à peine esquissé le fleuve.
Read the article →With every twist and turn of the Brahmaputra during a languorous 11-day cruise through the northeast Indian state of Assam, I am introduced to a nature and culture moulded by the river’s shapeshifting force. It is dry season. The monsoon rains are yet to fall.
Read the article →All of us were up on deck long before breakfast on our first morning, wearing robes and holding cups of tea, mesmerized by the life along the river: women dressed in saris washing themselves and their children in the latte-colored water, laundry hanging on trees, fishermen working their boats,…
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