This heritage resort 5km from Balipara offers luxurious rooms in five superbly renovated bungalows amid a picturesque botanic garden (the Eastern Himalayan Botanic Ark). The showcase Heritage Bungalow (doubles with full board ₹30,000) is a stately 120-year-old building that preserves a slice of the high life from its past, with enormous rooms and bathrooms.
Wild Mahseer is a good base for visiting both Nameri and Kaziranga, and the multifarious other activities on offer include detailed tea garden tours and visits to nearby tribal villages (where you can stay overnight in homestays if you wish). To find the estate, head east from Balipara's central crossroads and take the signposted road going left after 3km.