About this guide
An independent, honest guide to India's North-East — built to inform, not to sell.
Northeast India Guide is an independent travel and information guide to the eight states of India's North-East. It exists to answer, in one place and told straight, the questions a first-time visitor actually has — which permits, when to go, how to get around, what to see, and what it costs.
How we work
Every page is written to be useful first. We don't sell packages on the guide pages, we don't rank operators by who pays us, and we date what we can so you know how fresh it is. Where a rule can change — permits, road status, festival dates — we say so and point you to the official source.
A note on accuracy
The Northeast changes fast: permit rules, airport and road status, and festival dates all move. We keep this guide current as of September 2026, but always reconfirm the specifics — especially permits and mountain-road conditions — on official portals before you travel.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or want to be listed? Email us — we read everything. Write to wecare@northeastindia.guide. We are building the guide first and will add a phone line and a booking desk as the platform grows.
Image credits
All photographs are used from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons or public-domain licences, with attribution below. If you are a photographer and would like a correction, please get in touch.
| Image | Photographer | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanchenjunga Sunrise from Gnathnag Valley - Sikkim | Spattadar | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| One horn rhinoceros at Kaziranga national park | Priyanku Chetiapator | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| NohKaLikai Falls V2 Wiki | Vikramjit Kakati | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Bhavachakra or the Buddhist Wheel of Life at Tawang Monastery, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India | Kingshuk Mondal | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Kisama main arena Hornbill Festival 2019 | Aravind Manickam | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Loktak Lake Manipur 10 | ch_15march | CC BY 2.0 | source |
| Chaltlang veng view , Aizawl city Mizoram - panoramio | R london | CC BY-SA 3.0 | source |
| Right Facade of Ujjayanta Palace, Agartala, Tripura 06 | Kingshuk Mondal | CC BY 4.0 | source |
| View of Gangtok city from Ropeway | Subhrajyoti07 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Kamakhya Temple, Guwahati | Kunal Dalui | CC BY-SA 3.0 | source |
| Bhavachakra or the Buddhist Wheel of Life at Tawang Monastery, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, India | Kingshuk Mondal | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Rang Ghar 4 | Rangan Datta Wiki | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Unakoti | Vulpes-bengalensis | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Living root bridges of Nongriat village in East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya JEG7387 | PJeganathan | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Rumtek Monastery 05 | Bernard Gagnon | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Kohima war cemetery 53 | Shyamal | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Mask of Samaguri Satra 5 | Nayan j Nath | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| A minar inside Neermahal, Tripura, India | Kingshuk Mondal | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| A traditional Meitei garden ("Heikol Leikol" or "Heikon Leikon" in Classical Meitei language) inside the Kangla Palace (Kangla Fort), Imphal, Kangleipak | Haoreima | CC BY 4.0 | source |
| Dawki Bridge and Umngot River | ANKAN | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Ziro valley of Aruncahl in summer season | Arunachal2007 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Indian rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park March 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 06 | Tisha Mukherjee | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Tea garden of Assam | Vikramjit Kakati | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| A Sattriya dancer performing the dance form in Assam, India | Joydeep Chakraborty | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Naga warrior | Pralaylahiry | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| SELA PASS ,arunachal pradesh | সোমা ঘোষ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Nathu La Pass - Indian Army Dancing with Civilians | Indrajit Das | CC BY-SA 3.0 | source |
| Shillong City View | ANKAN | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| This scenic sunset view is captured over the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, Assam, | পাপৰি বৰা | CC BY 4.0 | source |
| Cherrapunji, Shillong | Varunmoka7 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |
| Doorway in Talatal Ghar, Sivasagar, Assam | Joli Rumi | CC BY-SA 4.0 | source |