Tour Of Nagaland, The Virgin Greens

Itinerary

• Day 1 - Fly into Guwahati and drive to Shillong

  Get a mesmerizing drive from Guwahati to Shillong along the smooth road and upon your arrival, settle down into your home stay.

• Day 2 - Local Shillong sightseeing

  Shillong is filled with two different landscapes, one of lush green rain fed forests and the other of barren land caused by the heavy erosion from relentless rain.

  Visit the Laitlum Canyons, Mawphlang Sacred Forest, Spread Eagle Fall, Sweet Fall, Elephanta falls and Shillong peak, the Cathedral Catholic Church and Lady Hydari Park on a sightseeing tour of Shillong.

• Day 3 - Shillong-Mawlynnong village-Dawki-Cherrapunjee

  Post breakfast drive to Mawlynnong which is the cleanest village in Asia. Drive through winding roads and panoramic views. Visit the famous living roots bridge and explore rural lifestyle in the village.

  Living root bridges are a form of tree shaping common in the southern part of the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya. The useful lifespan of any given living root bridge is variable, but it is thought that, under ideal conditions, they can last for many hundreds of years. As long as the tree they are formed from remains healthy, they naturally self-renew and self-strengthen as their component roots grow thicker.

• Day 4 - Drive to Kaziranga National Park

  Take a five hour journey from Shillong to visit Kaziranga National Park where you will stay overnight at jungle camps.

  If time allows, you will be able to take an evening jeep safari.

• Day 5 - Kaziranga National park

  Kaziranga National Park is famous for the endangered species, one-horned rhinoceros and it opens up as the venue for early-morning elephant safaris.

  Spend the day enjoying an elephant safari followed by a jeep safari and enjoy the abundance of wildlife that this park has to offer.

• Day 6 - Ahoy Nagaland

  Start early for a long drive to Kohima. Nagaland is of a primeval beauty, its stunning hills and valleys – right on the edge of the India–Myanmar border – are an otherworldly place where, until very recently, some 16-odd headhunting Naga tribes valiantly fought off any intruders.

  Come and settle into a cozy homestay with an Angami family and revel in traditional Naga hospitality.

• Day 7 - Kohima visit

  Explore Kohima and marvel at its splendid landscape and main attractions including the famous cathedrals, war cemetery and spend some time at the local market and watch the city go by.

  Spend the evening at the market purchasing exotic ingredients for your culinary tour experience by night.

  Visit the Kohima Museum, the British War Cemetery and the Kohima Cathedral.

• Day 8 - Spend a day like a local Naga villager

  Here you get a chance to learn the traditional Angami way of life, see the Morungs and local homes.

  Learn basket weaving and shawl weaving.

  Spend your afternoon walking along the fields and have an exotic lunch in the fields savoring locally brewed wine.

• Day 9 - Khonoma village visit

  Visit Khonoma village which is a testament to the will power of the tribal groups of Nagaland to protect and conserve their natural habitat.

  The village is an eco-village with all forms of hunting admonished for a more sustainable ecosystem.

  The reason Khonoma is even more special is that the Naga tribes, who live here are traditionally known to be largely dependent on nature for their food and hunt on a mass level, but the tribes of the Khonoma villagers have given up on this century old practice, to protect their environment.

  An ambitious project of converting a whole tribal village into an eco-friendly, conservation based village whose people have given up on traditional practices which used to harm their own surroundings. Traveling to this village hidden in the base of the mountains of Nagaland one admires their courage, resolve and success.

  Khonoma Village is worth a visit to see for oneself the success that can be achieved in an alternative form of living.

• Day 10 - Departure from Dimapur

  Depart from Dimapur and bid adieu to the pristine landscape of Nagaland.