Majuli the largest River Island

          

                                       

Tha Land of  SATRAS. Majuli is situated in the middle of only male river "Brahamputra" in the state of Assam. It is the largest river island in the world and also a hub of assamese neo-vaishnavite culture. Its scenic beauty adds spark to its rich culture. Farming, fishing, dairying, pottery,handloom and boat-making are the main occupations of the localities of this place.
              So, my journey for Majuli began from jorhat on my red bike. It took 25 minutes to reach Nimati ferry ghat from Jorhat. Thereafter, me, my red bike along with my friend boarded a ferry to reach Kamlabari ferry ghat situated in the island of  Majuli.Ferry Services startes at 7.30am morning from Nimati and continues up to 3.00pm. and from Kamalabari it Starts at 7.00am and contnues up to 3.30pm .
              After having tea at kamlabari bazar we headed towards Auniati satra. The satra is not just a monastery, but a centre of traditional performing arts. The monastery consists of a temple surrounded by dormitories . It also had a paathshala attached to its temple where the students were given spiritual and academic education in ancient times. We also found a museum where Assamese old utensils, artefacts, jewellery and handicrafts were on display.

             Majuli has a wide variety of mouth watering food and after returning back to Kamlabari bazar from Auniati satra we realized it was lunch time. Before lunch we decided to reach Garmur Centre as in Garmur a very good dining hotel is there and its mouth watering fish prepration was really a delicacy. Majuli being an island is a hotspot of a variety of fishes. After having delicious fish with rice we started heading towards Garmur satra. It is a monastery with a similar infrastructure like the Auniati satra. Its speciality lies in the Raasleela performed by the localities with great enthusiasm.
            After visiting Garmur Satra we realised that our staying is not yet finalised so we started looking for many Bamboo Cottages and Hotels but lastly decided to stay in " Deka Sang" a modern facility Resort with the Ethnic style outlook.We were fortunate enough to meet Mr Kaushik,Director of Deka Sang who is a very knowledgeable and learned person and happens to be a nature lover.Very humble and experienced.During our brief meeting with him we enjoyed his company.
Food of the Resort was very tasty and we enjoyed some local cuisines.

Early in the morning when I got up saw very interesting weather it was drizzling outside and all tree leaves were attractive green color it seemed that someone had painted entire plant leaves with the  all the true colours of nature. After a couple of minutes when the drizzles stopped,We went out of room only to find out that it was cold breeze which had started welcoming me. A rivulet flows near the resort and some fishermen were pulling the net which was planted there overnight. Net fish catch was not as the fishermen were expecting  as water  level  of the rivulet  had increased because of rains during the night. I started my morning walk surpassing them and was surprised to see the bunch of different spices of Birds perhaps some of the bunches were of migratory birds.Suddenly I witnessed the flight of  around 20/30 MYNA birds  from  river bank. I sneaked towards the eroded river Bank and found many holes there, these holes were the nest of  Myna Birds My knowledge about birds are very meagre. 

After morning walk and many unseen flora & fauna and many more I returned to resort and got ourselves ready for the day. While returning I picked a local fern known as Dhekiya Saag and gave it to the cook for cooking it. DHEKIYA is very tasty fern no matter how you prepare it. Today we decided to visit Dakhinpat Satra and Samaguri Satra. We started around 9am and visited both the sstras and it rich cultural heritage. In Dakhinpat Satra we witnessed Ahom era utensils and Some Gold work Sarees. This Satra is having very big pond and in the pond many tortoise lives which are very old may be 80/90 years old tortoises. While Samaguri Satra is famous for wooden crafts or MUKHA SILPA locally known as. The Mukhas are used during the famous Raas Mahotsav which takes place  during the month of October/November.

Suddenly I saw my watch it was clocking 01.30pm and we had to return to Jorhat same day so we rushed to Kamalabri Ferry Ghat to take last ferry service of 03.00 pm. Toady we realised that Yesterday  it took around 25 minutes from Ferry Ghat to reach main road at Majuli but today we reached with in 10 minutes. We were so confused that we reconfirmed from fellow passengers that is it  the same Ghat through we can reach Jorhat. Then the operator informed that due to increased water level of River Brahamputra the Ghat is re established to this new area and this is the Same Kamalabari Ghat need to worry.

Though we travelled on our bike but four wheelers can also be taken across for conveyance. Four wheelers slot  have to booked at least 1 day in advance otherwise some times Ferry is so crowded that four wheelers are not permitted on the ferry.

Out Journey took around 2.30 hrs. to reach Nimatighta,Jorhat Part due to heavy opposite flow of Brahamputra. During our return journey we also spotted River Dolphin. 

This way we concluded our Journey of World's Largest River Island MAJULI

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