Guwahati

Why this icon Pobitora, near Guwahati, has the highest density of one-horned rhinos in the world. Source: incredibleindia.gov.in

Zostel

The story

A hazy winter morning at Pobitora, near Guwahati: a one-horned rhino stands at the edge of the wetland with an egret riding on its back, a skein of winter migrants flies over, and a traveller stands up in an open jeep across the water, binoculars raised.

Why this picture

Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, about an hour from Guwahati, keeps Assam's second-largest population of the Indian one-horned rhinoceros on 39 square kilometres of wet grassland and shallow beels, where water hyacinth floats. The rhino's hide hangs in plates with deep folds of pinkish skin between them and is studded with wart-like tubercles on the shoulders and upper legs; egrets ride on the rhinos' backs and pick insects at their feet, and visitors watch from open jeeps. As winter turns to spring the red silk-cotton (simalu) flowers on bare branches.

The sky wears Hexagonal weave, from Assam and Meghalaya.

The motion

A skein of winter migrants crosses the sky; the egrets on the rhino's back and at its feet dip their heads; the sun's rays turn; the beel's lines run; the tall grass sways; egrets feed in the shallows. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Rani Pink #ED145A

Apricot #FFCE7B

Gulabi #EE3C96

Guwahati takes Gulabi #EE3C96, one of the three Flowers colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Guwahati

A second scene: another true moment at Guwahati, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

Sunset on the Brahmaputra at Guwahati: the sun goes down behind the Nilachal hills, the Saraighat bridge lies dark across the river, a boatman rows his country boat home, and close to the bank a river dolphin breaks the golden water while a traveller on the sandy bank points it out, a gamosa drying on a bamboo frame beside him.

Why this moment

Guwahati sits where the Nilachal hills meet the Brahmaputra (Zostel's Guwahati guide: the river is not a backdrop here, and October to March brings clear skies and a calm river for cruises and ferries). The Saraighat bridge (1962) carries road and rail across it on long steel spans. The Ganges river dolphin, India's national aquatic animal, lives in the Brahmaputra and surfaces to breathe, showing its long beak and back. The gamosa, Assam's white cotton cloth with red borders, is used every day and hung to dry in the sun.

The motion

The boatman rows slowly up the river and back; a flock of birds flies home across the sky; the river's rows run; the sun's fan of rays breathes. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Guwahati in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Guwahati, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

The gamosaOf the place
The gamosa: Assam's handwoven white cotton cloth with red borders and red woven motifs at its end, given to guests, tied round the head of Bihu dancers and worn by farmers at their work.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Bihu's dhol and pepaOf the place
Rongali Bihu's music: the dhol, a wooden barrel drum with hide heads laced by interwoven straps, beaten with a bamboo stick and the bare hand, and the pepa, the buffalo-horn pipe that opens the Bihu song.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Muga silkOf the place
Muga, the golden silk of Assam (GI 2007): spun from the cocoons of the wild Assam silkmoth, whose worms feed on som and soalu leaves, and woven into the mekhela chador that Bihu dancers wear.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Guwahati 2

Detailed icons from the library that name Guwahati among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Guwahati alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Guwahati's Zobus

Zobu in Guwahati's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

The animals of Guwahati

Animals and birds the research behind Guwahati's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

One-horned rhinocerosRhinoceros unicornis
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Water buffalo (domestic)Bubalus bubalis
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Guwahati needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city map, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

50 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included

Profile

Guwahati’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Guwahati’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG

Icon

An object: flat landscape colours. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVG PNG Mono SVG

Loop

Festival bunting flutters above it, or confetti points twinkle. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

The symbol becomes Guwahati and turns back — a Lottie loop for stories, the app and the web.

Lottie JSON

Display picture

Circle-safe: the colour, the icon and the name — for chats, socials and the app.

SVG PNG

Lockup

The horizontal lockup, with Guwahati under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Guwahati’s symbols, each in colour and in the city grey, as SVG and PNG — in the zip’s symbols folder.

See them with their files

Zobus

Guwahati’s Zobu pair, still and alive (idle, hello, hop), waving still and as a face (a profile picture) — in the zip’s zobus folder.

Female SVG Male SVG

Also made for Guwahati 5

The rest of what the library holds for Guwahati: the pattern of its region, the card its links share, each opening its own file or gallery.

The map we made for Guwahati

Eight things to do around Zostel Guwahati, each in its true direction with its distance and time from the door — a map made for your phone.

Ride the ropeway over the BrahmaputraRopeway · 4.3 km · 8 min drive
Shop for silk and gamosasFancy Bazaar · 2.8 km · 7 min drive
Spot one-horned rhinos by jeepPobitora · 47.2 km · 70 min drive
Sip rare Assam teas at sourceGTAC Tea Lounge · 10.3 km · 15 min drive
Learn Assam's arts and Bihu beatsKalakshetra · 14.1 km · 20 min drive
Watch rare storks on the wetlandDeepor Beel · 17.2 km · 25 min drive
Climb Nilachal Hill for river viewsNilachal Hill · 3.1 km · 40 min hike
Watch silk weavers at their loomsSualkuchi · 28.9 km · 45 min drive

Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

1080 × 1350, for a phone or a story. Distances and times from Zostel Guwahati, measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

On the map

Guwahati is in Assam, India — one of the 84 places where Zostel is live.

Region: Assam
Country: India
Where: 26.14° N, 91.74° E
Landscape: Flowers

Make its poster Every place

Guwahati · Assam · India

The gateway to the North-East. Rhinos an hour away.

The story

Why this picture

The motion

Colour

Another moment in Guwahati

The story

Why this moment

The motion

In the picture

Its files

Guwahati in symbols

Also drawn for Guwahati 2

Say hello to Guwahati's Zobus

The animals of Guwahati

The kit

Also made for Guwahati 5

The map we made for Guwahati

On the map