Dimapur

Dimapur railway station

It is situated in the southern part of the Nagaland state with Assam border. It is the biggest city and commercial hub of the state Nagaland with only airport and rail station in the state. It is situtated in the banks of river Dhansiri with population over 250000. Here the naga tribes are the majority people though there is also some assames, bengali,Metai,Bihari,Marwari,kacharis and nepales people here .In Dimapur summer is hot and humid and in winter is cold. Mythological belief is that …. this is the living area of the Hidimba(Demon in the time of Mahabharata) …. by the name of that demon city’s older name was Hidimbapur … But as the time goes ‘H’ dropped from the name and people called it Dimapur . It was previously it was the capital of the Kachari Rajbari then British came and capture the area . In 1900 it was the major military base to fight the Japanes force . This city is now leased to the nagaland state for 99 years.

Places to visit In Dimapur ?

Dimapur have very small places of tourist interest.

  • Kachari Rajbari : It was made in the 13 th century . Then after there is 2-3 times fight here. Here is no maintenance for the fort for the long time . There most of the area is the ruins of the Kachari Rajbari .
  • Jain Temple : It was established on 1947. It has a very unique glass design .

How to reach to Dimapur ?

Road:

There is bus connectivity from Guwahati, Imphal, Kohima . This is the major commercial hub of Nagaland so all the districts are connected by road with Dimapur. Roads that are passes through Dimapur are AH1, AH2,NH29,NH129,NH129A.

Rail:

This is the only Rail link in Nagaland . All goods are coming here by this station.

Air:

Dimapur is the only airport in the state of Nagaland . It has daily flight from Guwahati, Kolkata, Dibrugarh , Imphal .

Stories

Day 9 : 23 rd April 2021

The Bus comes here around 4:30 in the morning . Just after getting down people are shouting for the vehicle toward Imphal. Here mostly wingers and Buses travel towards Imphal . All the day transport are available toward imphal . After that I hire a auto to show me some budget hotels . Hotels that driver shown was just beside the bus depo . It was some bengali hotel. There is night curfew happens from night 7 to morning 5 so the hotel owner says “You come inside we will talk inside”. I pay the fare for the auto and come inside the hotel . He give me single room in the 3rd floor. The room was ok for me . Then after I went to the bed as the whole night I have not slept.

Around 8 I woke up once again . I have some cakes. I made the breakfast with it . Then go out for the local side seen . First I gone toward the Jain temple . I must say the road condition here beside the station is very bad . After 10 – 15 minutes the auto reach to the Jain Temple . It was very beautiful inside the temple . There was different jain saints picture and in the roof and wall glass work was marvelous . Here I found , lots of local people comes. After that goes to the opposite side of the city from where I can get car toward Chumukedima village .

Chumukedima is situated 15 km from the city centre . From here the hilly part of the Nagaland starts . Here I come for the Triple falls . Some says it is in the pagla pahar . The auto get down me at some places and said “In right side you walk 1 km and find a waterfall” .. but I don’t find a waterfall , I find a dam was building . So after sometime I return to the city once again .

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