Chance to contrast urban and rural life

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This will be a chance for the Cambridges to contrast urban and rural life.

Leaving behind Mumbai and Delhi, they'll fly to the state of Assam and to Kaziranga National Park.

On the banks of the Brahmaputra river, the world heritage site - according to its website - excites the senses, arrests the soul and beckons a visit.

Like his father and his grandfather, conservation is in Prince William's Windsor blood.

At this wildlife site William and his wife will learn about the challenges that arise when humans and wild animals live in close proximity.

The couple will also see the work of the rangers as they battle with the poachers hell bent on acquiring rhino horn.

That ever-lucrative trade is destroying the population of the one-horned rhinoceros. Two-thirds of those still alive shelter in Kaziranga National Park.