Inside The Postcard Durrung: A Luxury Tea Estate Stay In Assam

We left Guwahati behind on a crisp morning, the city slowly dissolving into quiet countryside and open skies. My father took the wheel while I sat beside him, navigating turns and soaking in the shifting landscape—one I had seen many times before, but never quite like this. The countryside unfolded in textured layers: lush fields stitched with rice and vegetables, little roadside stalls selling an assortment of snacks, and tall, slender betelnut trees rising like sentinels along the horizon. Somewhere beyond Tezpur, we turned off the highway and slipped onto a narrow track that wound its way into the Durrung Tea Estate. We were greeted with rows upon rows of tea bushes stretching in every direction, undulating across the landscape in perfectly curved lines, as if the earth itself had been combed smooth.