Paltan Bazaar
Paltan Bazaar is a locality of Guwahati, Assam.
Paltan Bazaar is a locality of Guwahati, Assam. It is surrounded by the localities of Pan Bazaar, Ulubari, Rehabari, Fancy Bazaar. Its location in the central part of the city-centre is the hub for transportation and hotels in Guwahati, Assam. With Guwahati Railway Station, the ASTC bus stand, numerous hotels, restaurants, offices and stops of numerous private bus service (regional) providers, makes it one of the busiest and congested area of city. There are also many small shops selling traditional garments from various parts of the North-East.
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Worth seeing in and around Paltan Bazaar
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden
The Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden is the largest of its kind in the North East region and it is spread across 432 acre. The zoo is located within the Hengrabari Reserved Forest at Guwahati, India.
3.9 km · zoo in Guwahati, India · Wikipedia - 02Umananda Temple
Umananda Devaloi is a Shiva temple located on the Umananda Island in the middle of the river Brahmaputra, Assam. Brahmaputra just opposite the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup or the Kachari Ghat in Guwahati.
2 km · temple in Assam, India · Wikipedia - 03Nehru Stadium, Guwahati
Nehru Stadium, also known as the RG Baruah Sports Complex, is a multi-purpose stadium in Guwahati, Assam, India. In 1962, Radha Govinda Baruah supervised and built the stadium.
600 m · building in India · Wikipedia - 04Assam State Museum
Assam State Museum, previously Assam Provincial Museum, is located in the southern end of Dighalipukhuri tank which is in the heart of Guwahati city, Assam. The Museum was established by the Kamarupa Anusandhan Samiti in 1940.
700 m · museum in Assam, India · Wikipedia - 05Cotton University
Cotton University, formerly known as Cotton College, is a public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established in 2017 by the provisions of an Act from the Assam Legislative Assembly which merged Cotton College State University and Cotton College.
900 m · state public university in Kamrup Metro, Assam, India · Wikipedia - 06Sukreswar Temple
The Sukreswar Temple is an important Shiva temple in the state of Assam in India. It has one of the largest Lingam of Lord Shiva.
1.5 km · temple in India · Wikipedia - 07Ugro Tara Temple
Ugratara Devalaya is a temple dedicated to Ugratara located in the western side of Jor Pukhury tanks in the heart of Guwahati city in the Lotaxil locality in Northeast India. The Ugratara Temple in Uzan Bazaar in the eastern part of Guwahati, Assam, is a Shakti shrine.
1.1 km · temple in India · Wikipedia - 08Doul Govinda Temple
Doul Govinda Temple ˈvɪndə) is one of the important temples of Kamrup, Assam, India. It is situated on the northern banks, on the foothills of Chandra Bharati hill at Rajaduar, North Guwahati.
3.2 km · Hindu temple in India · Wikipedia - 09Handique Girls College
Handique Girls College or Guwahati Girls College is a constituent college of the University of Gauhati. It is one of the oldest colleges located in the Indian state of Assam and offers undergraduate courses in Arts and Science.
900 m · college in Assam · Wikipedia - 10Guwahati Theatre Festival
Guwahati Theatre Festival is an annual theatre festival held in Guwahati city of Assam state, India. The festival is organized by G Plus, an English-language weekly tabloid newspaper in Guwahati.
1.7 km · theatre festival in Guwahati, Assam · Wikipedia
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Getting to Paltan Bazaar
- Airports
- Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (GAU), 19 km · Osmany (ZYL), 136 km · Bir Tikendrajit (IMF), 267 km
- Stations
- Guwahati railway station, 400 m
- Imphal → Paltan Bazaar268 km · quickest by air, 4h 29m · ₹4,870–7,450
- Siliguri → Paltan Bazaar336 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · ₹5,310–8,140
- Kolkata → Paltan Bazaar529 km · quickest by air, 5h 1m · ₹6,550–10,040
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No local-transport research exists yet for Paltan Bazaar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Paltan Bazaar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe hill stations of Shillong and Tura are connected by scheduled helicopter services run by Pawan Hans.
- Get aroundIf you can not go on the river cruise, at least cross the river on the ferry.
- Get aroundFerries provide transport to the local people - they leave the jetty at Fancy Bazar every half an hour and the round trip will take around 45 minutes.
- Go nextMeghalaya state transport provides several buses departing in the morning and also regular shared 7-passenger jeep service for ₹170 (more comfortable than the usual 10-pax Sumo) from the bus terminal south of the train station.
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Next door to Paltan Bazaar
- Dispurlocality in Guwahti, India and seat of the Assam government3.7 km
- Kamrup Metropolitan districtdistrict of Assam, India1.9 km
- North Guwahatihuman settlement in India3.2 km
- Anand Nagarhuman settlement3.2 km
- Rajaduarvillage in Assam, India3.4 km
- Pan Bazaarhuman settlement in India600 m