The Abode Of Clouds Meghalaya

Our cab will pick you from Guwahati airport and transfer to Shillong.

It would be a 3 Hr drive via lovely landscapes.

En route you can visit the Umiam lake on the way to Shillong.

Umiam Lake is a reservoir in the hills 15 km north of Shillong in the state of Meghalaya, India. It was created by damming the Umiam River in the early 1960s. The principal catchment area of the lake and dam is spread over 220 square km.

Check inn to the hotel. Later in the evening head for some local site-seeing and shopping around Shillong city. Visit the famous Ward’s Lake

If time allows also visit the Elephant falls & Don Bosco Museum.

Early morning wake up call, time to join our naturalist for your site seeing to Mawlynnong Village which is Asia’s cleanest village. Mawlynnong is a village in the East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya. It is famous for its women-centric society as well as having been declared Asia's cleanest village. As per the survey of 2014, there were about 95 homes in Mawlynnong. The literacy rate was 100%. The localities are chiefly occupied with agriculture, with betel nut being the main harvest. The people residing here belong to the Khasi Tribe while other tribes are Garo.

DAWKI - is small border town in the Jaintia Hills, Dawki and its famed river Umngot is a must visit if in Meghalaya. Sandwiched between India and Bangladesh, Dawki is a major center of trade between India and Bangladesh. The small city, besides being a trade hub is also famous for its tourism scene, with many people flocking to the city in order experience a boat ride in its famed Umngot River and enjoy the nearby sights and sounds

The city becomes a hotbed of tourist activities especially during the spring months as it hosts the boat riding competition on the Umngot River. The surrounding greenery, the cold water of the river and the beautiful suspension bridge on the River Umngot make Dawki a place worth a visit.

Living Roots Bridge

 It is located at around 92 km from Shillong near Mawlynnong Village, one can go for a easy trek to a single-decker living root bridge. The village offers picturesque natural beauty, a trek to the living root bridge at a neighboring village Riwai. The village also offers a sight of natural balancing rock, a strange natural phenomenon of a boulder balancing on another rock.

Drive back to hotel in Cherrapunjee.

Overnight stay in hotel/ Homestay.

After stomach filled breakfast drive to another exotic location- Cherrapunji. Among the wettest place on the Earth, Cherrapunji with its clean and pristine surroundings is an excellent place to sit back and unwind.

With a unique climate gifted to the area, its untouched beauty and an environment similar to the freshest dew drops, Cherrapunji is sure to refresh you inside out. The waterfalls in the area only compliment the climate and the flattering pleasant air around. These include the Dain Thelen falls, Noh Sngithiang falls, Noh Kalikai falls and more. This rainy misty place is also famous for astounding tourists with the lavish spread of the Bangladesh plains from its cliffs.

Visit the Seven Sisters waterfall.

Nohkalikai Waterfalls

The fourth highest waterfalls in the world, Nohkalikai falls plunge some 335 meters from a verdant cliff to the ground giving the portrayal of immense and natural magnificence. The pride of the state of Meghalaya, the falls are one of the most beautiful and grand waterfalls in the country. Tucked in between evergreen rainforest of the Khasi Hill and flowing with all its majesty and might, the falls plunges into a lagoon which is as blue as the afternoon sky. The name of the falls is attached with a sad story of woman named Ka Likai who remarried a man, who believed that she loved his daughter more than him. So one day while Ka Likai was working outside, the man killed his daughter and cooked her flesh and served it to Ka Likai. She ate the meal and went out to look for her daughter and while doing so she found her fingers in a beet-nut basket. Seeing this she became very upset and plunged to death from the waterfall which was now renamed 'Noh Ka Likai

Krem Mawsmai Cave

Mawsmai Cave is by far the most popular of the lot. Located just 6 km away from the heart of Cherrapunji Mawsmai cave is a breathtaking maze of caves in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya. The well lit caves are a view to behold when the glistening lights meet with the limestone to create countless hues and patterns of light.

Considered to be the most popular of all the caves in the region, Mawsmai Cave is beautiful to say the least. There is plenty of flora and fauna within the cave to catch one 's attention. The length of the cave is just 150 meters which is not the longest compared to the other caves in the region but it surely provides one a glimpse of life in the underground.

Krem Mawsmai Cave

Your overnight stay will be at Cherapunji.

Meghalaya's double-decker root bridges are unique in the world and are a sight to behold. The bridges are tangles of massive thick roots, which have been intermingled to form a bridge that can hold several people at a time. Khasi people have been trained to grow these bridges across the raised banks of streams to form a solid bridge, made from roots. The living bridges are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree, which produces a series of secondary roots that are perched atop huge boulders along the streams or the riverbanks to form bridges.
The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong – strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time. The bridges are alive and still growing and gain strength over time.

The Double Decker 'root bridge', it is located in Tryna village. Made of the Indian Rubber Tree this is one of the biggest attractions of Cherrapunji.

A unique attraction and quite an innovative mix of nature and engineering. The Umshiang River flows beneath the bridge.

The trek from Cherrapunjee to the living roots bridges is not for the faint hearted as it requires lot of stamina and grit to trek down to these natural wonders of the nature.

After the day trek to Living roots drive back to Shillong.

Take a walk in the local market at Police Bazar and do some local shopping.

Try some local cuisines. Overnight stay in Hotel.  

Local Site seeing in Shillong & Departure to Guwahati.

After early breakfast visit some local places like Lake, Don Bosco Museum etc.

Depart timely to catch the flight from Guwahati.

Say good Bye with lovely memories of the God’s Own Place – MEGHALAYA