Travelling through Assam, you first meet tea gardens rolling like green waves, the mighty Brahmaputra flowing with quiet grandeur, and forests alive with rare wild-life. Linger a little, and another Assam emerges one of silent giants rooted in earth and memory. These are the State's heritage trees: approximately more than a hundred of them, each over a century old and some as ancient as 500 to 600 years, lovingly chronicled by the Department of Environment and Forest in Heritage Trees of Assam.

Heritage tree tourism is not about ticking off sights; it is about meeting these elders of the natural world. Recognised for their age, size, rarity, or cultural resonance, here they grow beside Ahom-era temples, stand sentinel at satras and royal palaces, and form the heart of villages where folk

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