Digboi, Assam, India
 Digboi
boasts of two modern wonders of the world-a
hundred year old oil field still producing oil
and the world’s oldest operating oil refinery.
Popularly known as the city of oil, oil was
first found over here in 1879. The city’s attractions
include the War Cemetery and the National Oil
Park. Digboi oil field is not just an oil field,
but also an oil museum and a wildlife sanctuary
of unsurpassed beauty. Digboi’s Dibru Saikh
owa Wildlife Sanctuary houses the extremely
rare White Winged Wood Duck and many other migratory
birds. The specialty of Dibru Saikhowa is its
wild horses, called Feral Horses.
If you are among the supporters of eco tourism,
then the Centenary Eco Park is the place to
visit. It presents a glimpse of the rich and
diverse flora and fauna that abounds in the
state of Assam.
 One
can also plan excursions to the various picturesque
places like Margherita, a center for tea gardens,
plywood factories and coal mines: Ledo: Naharkatia,
an oil well; or to Duliajan with tea gardens
all around.
A Taste for Adventure: Digboi Club Golf
Links 18 holes Golf course considered
the best in the entire upper Assam, where
all important tournaments are held. There are
8 other 9 hole Golf courses with tea estates
between Dibrugarh and Doom Dooma. |
The
golf club is bordered by the popular Deihing
forest reserve on three sides, with the fourth
outlined by the National Highway-38 and the
magnificent mountains of Arunachal Pradesh looming
large on the horizon. The Reserve hosts a variety
of flora and fauna including wild elephants,
leopards, wild boar, barking deer, an assortment
of snakes including the venomous king cobra
and among birds, the hornbill and the parakeet.