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Nohkalikai Falls dropping down a layered cliff into a turquoise plunge pool below forested slopes
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Private tour · Meghalaya

Meghalaya Tour

The complete first visit: Sohra's waterfalls, a root bridge you can reach without a hard walk, and the Umngot at Dawki running clear enough to see the riverbed.

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Duration
From 5 days
length to suit you
Starts from
Guwahati
Highest point
4,908 ft
Shillong
Best season
October – April

When to go

October – April

June to September delivers the waterfalls at full force, but the Umngot runs silty rather than clear.

Tour type
Private tour
Starts from
Guwahati
Permit
None required
Difficulty
Easy

On the trip

What you’ll come home talking about

  1. Nohkalikai Falls, India's tallest plunge waterfall

  2. Umngot river at Dawki and Shnongpdeng

  3. Mawlynnong and its single-decker root bridge

  4. Mawsmai Cave and Seven Sisters Falls

  5. Umiam Lake and Shillong's cafés

Altitude along the road

Highest point Shillong, 4,908 ft

  1. Guwahati
  2. Shillong
  3. Sohra
  4. Mawlynnong
  5. Dawki

The route

Where the road takes you

The stops this trip is built around, in order. Your day-by-day plan, stays and pace come with your free quote.

  1. Guwahati

    Start · 180 ft · Kamrup

    The gateway to the whole region and worth a day of its own. Kamakhya sits on Nilachal hill above the city, one of the most important Shakta temples in India; Umananda occupies a small island in the Brahmaputra reached by ferry.

    The red domes and courtyard of the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, with people crossing the flagstones
    The Kamakhya temple courtyard, Guwahati

  2. Shillong

    4,908 ft · East Khasi Hills

    The state capital and the region's music town, where a café on Laitumkhrah is as likely to have a live set as a coffee menu. Ward's Lake and the Don Bosco museum sit in the centre; Umiam Lake spreads out on the drive in from Guwahati.

    Shillong seen from the air, its coloured roofs packed across a bowl of green ridges with hills beyond
    Shillong, spread across its hills

  3. Sohra

    4,692 ft · East Khasi Hills

    Nohkalikai drops 340 m in a single fall here, the tallest plunge waterfall in India, into a pool that turns turquoise once the silt settles. Mawsmai Cave and the Seven Sisters falls are within a short drive along the same escarpment.

    Several waterfalls dropping together off a green plateau edge into a deep forested gorge under heavy cloud
    The falls off the edge of the Sohra plateau

  4. Mawlynnong

    1,640 ft · East Khasi Hills

    Widely billed as the cleanest village in Asia, and genuinely tidy — bamboo bins on every path and a community that maintains them. A single-decker living root bridge stands at Riwai, ten minutes away, for anyone not walking down to Nongriat.

    The village street at Mawlynnong, swept clean and lined with shaded stalls and cane baskets
    The village street at Mawlynnong

  5. Dawki

    328 ft · West Jaintia Hills

    In the dry months the Umngot runs clear enough that a boat appears to float above its own shadow on the riverbed. The Bangladesh border is a few hundred metres downstream, and the plain beyond it opens out flat to the horizon.

    A wooden boat on the Umngot at Dawki, the water so clear the riverbed shows through beneath it
    A boat on the Umngot, the riverbed showing through

Reviews

In their own words

Written to us by travellers after their trips. Each card names where they went.

  • Ashwini and Pushkar below a tiered waterfall in Meghalaya

    Ashwini & Pushkar

    Meghalaya

    “We didn't have to worry about the itinerary or food or anything. Everything was taken care of. We could travel without any worries and could enjoy seamlessly due to the efforts of the team.”
    • A traveller standing in the shallows with both arms flung wide below a wide, three-tiered waterfall and a green pool
    • A couple in life jackets sitting in a plunge pool below a tall, narrow waterfall, boulders in the foreground
    • A couple standing together on the rock shelf below a tiered waterfall, the pool turquoise behind them
    • A traveller crossing a living root bridge through dense green forest, a second traveller following behind
    • A couple at a railing looking across at a tall single-drop waterfall falling past a large pale boulder
  • Mr. Yatin Dahanukar

    Mr. Yatin Dahanukar

    Meghalaya

    “Akash is a fantastic guide who manages tours with incredible ease. Things were arranged in time. Trip started in time and was well managed.”

  • + many more

    happy, satisfied travellers.

    These are the ones who sat down and wrote it out for us.

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