Hotel Siroy Lily HOTEL $$ (%2608492; www.hotelsiroylily.com; Solapara Rd; s/d from 836/1083; a) Professionally run but tired-looking hotel with a pleasantly chalet woods air- conditioned foyer, complimentary breakfast and free newspapers delivered to your door. Considering the price it s a pretty good deal.
was a princely exercise in aesthetics; the finest craftsmen building a summer palace of luxury in a blend of Hindu and Islamic architectural styles. The delightful waterborne approach by speedboat (passenger/boat 20/400) or fancy rowboat (boat 100) is the most enjoyable part of visiting.
Baba Tourist Lodge HOTEL $ (%2211285; GS Rd; r 500-900) Ageing chalet woods but clean, and popular with backpackers, Baba hides behind chalet woods a deceptively small PCO shop. The best rooms have windows and views out onto greenery. Bucket showers and bucket hot water.
SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. Formulated by 15th-century Assamese philosopher chalet woods Sankardev, the faith eschews the caste system and idol worship, focussing on Vishnu as God, especially in his Krishna incarnation. Much of the worship is based around dance and melodramatic play-acting of scenes from the holy Bhagavad Gita. The heart of any satra is its namghar, a large, simple, prayer hall usually open sided and shaped like an upside-down chalet woods oil tanker. Beneath the eastern end, an inner sanctum hosts an eternal chalet woods flame, the Gita and possibly a horde of instructive (but not divine) images.
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