Tezpur

“When we look at the ruins, we always get the same feeling: It's as if the ruin will suddenly come alive and tell its own interesting story!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

We still had. 5 hours sailing to reach our destination so after breakfast the chef demonstrated how to make a type of dumpling which was considered street food. All ingredients were explained with the one I’d not heard of before mango spice this was tried and powered green mango a bit of a sour bitter taste. He demonstrated how to make a disk type shape turning with your fingers to make a pocket then stuffing with a relative dry seasoned mashed potatoes. We all tried our hand some shapes let say were remedial. These were fried in soybean oil and eaten with 2 chutneys. yummy

We continued sailing the air was getting cleaner and you could see glimpse of a blue sky as we watched villages on shore not as many people bath in the Brahmaputra compared to the Ganges. As we sailed further you could see the snow capped mountains of the eastern Himalayan mountains they were about 120 km away

Finally we were able to get off the boat at Texpur where joined a convoy of mini buses 7 to a bus please. The city was nearly closed as it was festival time again and a full moon festival. We went to De Patbella temple which only small ruins which the Indian archaeological department maintain. it was form the 6th century. After that we drove to the city fair which had many items from the surrounding areas but we were the main attraction having our photos taken.

Some food for today