What if Season 3 Was Filmed Here

Somewhere in the mist-covered hills, far from crowded beaches and designer lobbies, a new kind of luxur y waits — intimate, atmospheric, and untouched.

If the next season of HBO’s The White Lotus were to be set in India, it wouldn’t be Goa or Jaipur. It would be here — in the shadowed tea estates of Assam, in the haunting rhythms of tribal Nagaland, along the glacial passes of Arunachal Pradesh.

Because this is Nor theast India — and it is cinematic, spiritual, dramatic, and beautiful in ways the world hasn’t yet fully seen.

A Setting Ripe for Story

Each season of The White Lotus drops us into a pristine, picturesque locale beneath the beauty lies complexity:

The clash of cultures, the tension between outsiders and insiders, the lives of people who ser ve, watch, and sometimes unravel.

Northeast India offers a perfect mirror.

It is visually stunning — tea gardens rolling like velvet in Assam, mist-soaked monasteries in Tawang, tribal villages etched into the green skin of the mountains. It is culturally layered — with more than 200 indigenous tribes, Buddhist monastic orders, colonial legacies, and untamed wilderness. It is still under the radar, unfamiliar to most travelers — which makes it all the more magnetic.

The Cast of Characters Writes Itself Imagine…

A disillusioned CEO and his writer wife tr ying to “reconnect” over a curated tea trail in Dibrugarh.

A honeymooning Berlin couple searching for “meaning” in Tawang, only to fall in love with silence.

A group of expats on a reunion cruise down the Brahmaputra — each one unraveling in private, slowly, deliciously.

The Purvi Discover y staff — the naturalist who knows the secrets of Kaziranga’s forest, the quiet driver who once walked with rhinos, the housekeeper in a colonial bungalow who ser ves you tea with a knowing smile and a stor y behind her silence.

The Aesthetic of White Lotus, the Soul of the Himalayas

The show's signature elements — vast open spaces, minimal dialogue, and cultural undercurrents — would thrive in Northeast India.

The wide-angle shots of Buddhist monks in red robes crossing a stone bridge in Bomdila. The gold glint of dawn through monastery bells. The slow swirl of rice beer in a tribal home, shared over a fire while thunder growls in the hills.

And instead of the sea, the Brahmaputra River, flowing thick and ancient, would play its own role — steady, indifferent, eternal.

For the Real-Life White Lotus Traveler

You don’t have to wait for HBO to come calling.

With Purvi Discovery, you can already experience what this imagined season would offer — without the melodrama. Only the atmosphere, the intimacy, the sense of being inside a story that’s much older, much deeper, and completely yours.

Picture this:

A stay in a restored 19th-century tea bungalow, attended by staff who know the land as well as the legacy.

A sunrise safari in Kaziranga, rhinos rising from mist as you sip coffee in silence. A private blessing by a senior monk in Tawang Monastery, arranged with care and respect.

An unexpected conversation over lunch with a tribal matriarch who reshaped your entire view of the world.

And yes — there’s drama. But it's inside you. Where it belongs.

And yes — there’s drama. But it's inside you. Where it belongs.

If White Lotus came to Northeast India, it would be a season about stillness, unraveling, reckoning, and renewal. Not just voyeurism, but vision. Not consumption, but connection.

And for those who want to experience that now — before the scripts are written, before the crowds arrive, before the magic is diluted — the time is now.

Let Purvi Discovery craft your cinematic escape to Northeast India — no cameras, just soul.