Tucked away in India’s northeast corner is the state of Assam. With its wide open spaces, silk weaving, tea plantations, and lush wildlife reserves, it is surprisingly absent from the tourist radar. Wonderful! That is exactly why I recently dry ran it to precede a full-blown group tour in 2018. For seven days, my husband and I explored Assam. Atop an elephant, we swayed through Kaziranga, home of the rare one-horned rhino. In Jorhat, we camped – ok, luxuriated – in a tea plan