Discovering Some Wildlife With Honda's Drive to Discover 9

Honda’s Drive to Discover 9 takes us to Assam, allowing us an opportunity to explore the world’s largest river island and catch a glimpse of the rare one-horn rhino.

- Arup Das

The realisation of the fleeting nature of time can be a rude awakening – before we’re even aware of it, it’s already gone. It dawned on me when I was heading to Assam for Honda’s 9th edition of the Drive to Discover, as I realised that it’s been almost ten years since I was last in the North East. It seemed surreal how these ten years just vanished from my life, leaving me with nothing but a few fragments of memory. And while I was still recovering from the shock of losing those ten years, the scenery and landscape of the North East unfolded in front of my eyes and hurled me into a different kind of contemplation. There’s something about these parts – the smell of clean air, greenery that goes further than your eyes can see, and the absence of chaos, which we all have accepted as a part of life in the metros – that just makes you wonder if… okay, let’s move on before I start to get seriously philosophical.

Our drive began from a muggy Guwahati, under thundering clouds. Our destination was the world’s largest river island, Majuli, which is roughly 350 kilometres from there. And my companion for the day was the Honda CR-V petrol, which effortlessly got us out of the hustle-bustle of the city, and soon put us on the National Highway 27.