Getting There
By Air
There are daily flights to Borjhar Airport, Guwahati, from Delhi and Calcutta. Flights from Agartala, Dibrugarh, Dimapur, Imphal and Silchar arrive in Guwahati on a tri-weekly basis. Taxis and coaches take you in to the city, which is 25 km away.
By Road
Guwahati is the nodal point for road transport in northeast India. Four national highways meet in this city. You can drive into Guwahati from Agartala (Tripura), Aizawl (Mizoram), Bomdila (Arunachal Pradesh), Cooch Behar (West Bengal),Dimapur (Nagaland), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Imphal (Manipur), Kohima (Nagaland), Shillong andTura (Meghalaya)and Dibrugarh, Digboi, Sibsagar, Silchar, Tinsukhia and Tezpur (Assam).
By Train
There are several trains connecting various Indian cities to Guwahati. The Rajdhani Express from New Delhi takes 28 hours; Kamrup Express from Calcutta takes 22 hours; Northeast Express from Delhi takes 37 hours; Brahmaputra Mail from Delhi takes 41 hours; Dadar Express from Bombay takes 54 hours; Bangalore Express from Bangalore takes 61 hours; Trivandrum Express from Trivandrum takes 72 hours; Saraighat Express from Howrah takes 18 hours – and all these trains run at least twice a week to Guwahati. Within northeast India, the Brahmaputra Mail gets you to Guwahati from Dimapur in 10 hours, Tinsukhia in 17 hours and Dibrugarh in 19 hours.
Getting Around
Guwahati has a good road transport system. The city bus system is very efficient and adequate. Most hotels arrange for cars-on-hire. Unmetered taxis and auto rickshaws are also available. However the most common mode of transport is cycle rickshaws. If you have boarded one in any other Indian city, you will realize that the ones here are more comfortable than their counterparts elsewhere.
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