Savory UPPER ASSAMESE Breakfast - Paratha & Samosa Laddu + Gibbon Sanctuary | Jorhat, Assam, India
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The reasons why I love exploring India are far too numerous to list, but the food and wildlife are near the top of that list. In the last year and a half, I have explored two national parks and over two dozen towns, villages, and cities in India. The deep dives I’ve taken into the cuisines of this country and the encounters I’ve had with local wildlife are experiences I will remember forever and I can’t wait to share more of them with you!
After an eventful day trip to the historical Ahom Kingdom capital of Sivasagar, I linked back up with my friends Rishi and Afzal in Jorhat the following day. We headed out to a local gibbon sanctuary and had an amazing Assamese breakfast! Come along with me as I continue my exploration of the Jorhat area!
We headed to the gibbon sanctuary first. On the way, we passed many tea gardens. Assam is the tea capital of India. Upon arriving at the Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in the Mariani Range, we immediately heard some gibbons up in the trees! We couldn’t see them but they were shaking the trees overhead!
There are also wild elephants here, so we needed to be careful. We had to wait for a train to pass and for a ranger to join us. We stopped at a small building to find out how much it would cost us. It costs only 50 rupees (roughly $0.72 U.S.) for Indian residents, but it’s 500 rupees (about $7.16 U.S.) for foreigners, plus an additional 500 rupees if you have a camera. But since foreigners brought me, they got in for free. It was worth it, though!
With my wallet 1,000 rupees (roughly $14.32 U.S.) lighter, we finally continued on. We got a tour guard and set out on foot about 1 kilometer into the bush. We passed by the state tree of Assam and a giant wood spider. It was huge! We also saw some fresh elephant dung, so we knew some were close by.
The best time to come to the sanctuary is between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. Then we noticed a leopard paw print on the ground, but they’re nocturnal, so we didn’t really have to worry about them. After following the path for a while, we ventured off the path and into the bush. I had to look out for spiders – I don’t like them!
Then we saw a pig-tailed macaque in a tree as we trekked further into the bush. You have to be careful where you step, as the paths aren’t cleared. Then we saw a squirrel high up in a tree and more elephant dung. We reached and walked along the railroad tracks we saw earlier, but we didn’t wind up seeing any gibbons. It was unfortunate, but this is what happens sometimes with wildlife. We could hear them, but never saw one.
I was pretty hungry, so it was time to get some breakfast! It would consist of lots of fried stuff, so I was ready for it. We arrived back in the town of Mariani and stopped at LB’s Kitchen. We started with black tea with ginger, which was piping hot and had tons of ginger flavor!
I ordered an aloo paratha with a super rich-looking sabji. It looked so orange and tangy and contained lots of peas and potatoes. There was also a nice, grainy black dal dish. The aloo wasn’t very soupy; instead it was like a curry. It was amazing!
The paratha was delicious and I loved the amount of aloo in it! The sabji was so tasty. It was more like a vegetable curry and was so freaking good. The dal was nice, but the sabji was definitely the highlight of my breakfast, for sure! It cost 340 rupees (roughly $4.87 U.S.) for all four of us to eat. Such a great deal!
Mariani is made up of lots of Bengali people from West Bengal. We headed back out and saw lots of vendors. We got out and walked to the sweets shop and passed by a Shiva temple by the side of the road. We got to Paradox Hotel and ordered sweet samosas with laddu stuffing.
It was very sweet, like a biscuit with a nice, creamy filling. The laddu was very orange and tasty!
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Savory UPPER ASSAMESE Breakfast - Paratha & Samosa Laddu + Gibbon Sanctuary | Jorhat, Assam, India
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