Type: nature
Best from: Guwahati
You need: 5 days

What’s now Orang National Park was a densely populated tribal village exactly hundred years ago. Villagers deserted their homes en masse when a virulent epidemic called Black Fever struck their village; and they never returned. Over the next hundred years nature healed herself, tree by tree. And today, Orang is one of the most beautiful sanctuaries of Assam, and has earned the sobriquet of ‘Mini Kaziranga’.

The writer spotted this one-horned rhino in the early morning at Orang National Park. Look closer and you can see a black bird resting on its back. pics/c gnagadharan menon