ridgeview chalets 374 bird species have been recorded in the park, including such rarities as the whiterumped vulture

With an oversized foyer better suited as a car showroom, ridgeview chalets Hotel Arun Subansiri (%2212806; Zero Point; s/d 1100/1320; a) has comfortably large rooms with soft beds. It s within walking distance of the decent State Museum (Indian/foreigner/camera/video 10/75/20/100; h9.30am-4pm Sun-Thu) and the brightly decorated ridgeview chalets Centre for Buddhist Culture gompa set in gardens on the hill above.

State Museum MUSEUM (admission 5; h9.30am-3.30pm Tue-Sun) ridgeview chalets The superbly presented State Museum, 3km north, includes plenty of tableaux with mannequins- in-action depicting diff erent traditional Naga lifestyles plus everyday tools.

374 bird species have been recorded in the park, including such rarities as the whiterumped vulture (which may now be extinct in the park), greater spotted eagle and the white-winged duck. Of the big mammals, wild elephants are present as are numerous deer species and a few rarely seen tigers. However, for many mammal-spotting naturalists, ridgeview chalets the park s most exciting resident is the critically ridgeview chalets endangered dwarf hog, which, after many years of absence has recently ridgeview chalets been returned to the wild thanks to a successful captive breeding project run by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (www.durrell.org). Park fees include the compulsory armed guard. Access is from Potasali, 2km off the Tezpur Bhalukpong road (turn east at one-house hamlet Gamani, 12km north of Balipara).

Guwahati is considered the site of Pragjyotishpura, a semi-mythical town founded by Asura King Naraka who was later killed by Lord Krishna for a pair of magical earrings. ridgeview chalets The city was a vibrant cultural centre well before the Ahoms arrived, and later it was the theatre of intense Ahom Mughal