Published by Travel Weekly, USA

I’ve been to India many times, but never on a river cruise and nev- er to the country’s northeast corner in the state of Assam. That changed last November when a friend and I spent a week on the Brahmaputra River that started even before we stepped onboard the 46-passenger Mahabaahu.

We were met at the airport in Guwahati house by our guides and on route to the boat stopped at the 17th-century Kamakhya Temple complex, with its traditional beehive domes and tantric history and practices, including animal sacrifice…