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India: Himalaya Sojourn Photo Gallery
Photographs by Steve Winter Text by Scott Stuckey

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n Guwahati, Assam, a tour boat returns from the popular sightseeing destination of Peacock Island in the Brahmaputra River. "Lots of people take river tours," says photographer Steve Winter. "There are dinner and party boats you can take to enjoy the river at sunset." A deceptively large city with the soul of a small market town, Guwahati, population 968,818, is the cultural and financial center of Assam and home to one of the world's largest tea auctions. Highlights of the city include a large public garden of interlocking lagoons, a well-used cricket pitch, a hopping downtown shops district, and outlying bazaars.

Read more about India in "Passages Through India," a special section in the November/December 2006 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

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