 Just 15 kilometres off the town of Jorhat,
in the intrinsically Assamese village of Jalukonibari is the Thengal
Mansion.
This Mansion that is over 70 years old retains all the hauteur of the
colonial plantation days and is yet ideally placed for an insightful and
fascinating stay in a verdant village of Upper Assam that appears to
have passed unchanging and unchanged into this century.
Jorhat, the gateway to north-east Assam is
the heartland of tea. Besides its many tea estates, it has the famous
Teklai Experimental Centre that conducts research on new varieties of
tea and its therapeutic effects.
Jorhat is 84 kilometres from Kaziranga
national park and 90 km from Dimapur (Nagaland).
Getting There :
By Air
There are fairly regular flights to Jorhat from Kolkata with a flying
time of 1 hr, 10 minutes. Thengal is a 25 minute drive from Jorhat
Airport.
By Rail
The nearest railhead is at Jorhat
By Road
The drive from Guwahati to
Thengal via Jorhat takes six hours
Accommodation :
Besides the suites, all with attached
bathrooms and dressing rooms, the mansion has a sitting room, dining
room, lounge, kitchen and pantry. The architecture is an immediate
throwback to a colonial time and an opulent plantation past with its
colonnaded verandah, covered chandeliered sit-out overlooking the lush
lawns, fireplace and Louis XV furniture in the drawing room.
No of rooms
4 double-bed rooms, 1 single-bed room, all with attached dressing rooms
and bath
Guest Room:
The plush
suites of single or double beds with attached dressing rooms and
bathrooms are all fitting with fireplaces and furnished with period
pieces in keeping with the early 1900s including four poster beds.
Dining :
Indian, Continental and Chinese
cuisines are served.
Facilities :
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Twenty four hours supply
of clear, deep tube-well water
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Geysers in all rooms
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Fire Places in all bed
rooms, drawing room and dinning rooms
Room View
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