Mawphanlur

Mawphanlur, located in West Khasi Hills is only two hours away from Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya (About 71kms from Shillong).
It's most visited place is the picnic spot with a lake in the heart of the spot.

In recent years, this place has attracted plenty of visitors and many people come here to admire the beauty of the place.
I haven't visited this place yet, but my friends did on the 2nd of February 2019 and I asked them to take a few pictures for my post.

The best time to visit this place is after the monsoon season when the Hills is full of greenery.

If you want to know more about Mawphanlur, here is a video on youtube  by Explore Exotic Meghalaya Meghalaya and another post I found in tripito.
These two posts will definitely give you guys more information about this spot, thus I kept this post short.

View the Directions on Google Map

Pictures

 

Mawphlang

Mawphlang Village (under Mawphlang C&RD Block) is about 25 kilometres from Shillong is a place that has driven many people to the natural beauty of this location, both local and tourist since it is very close to the city of Shillong and about 1 hour away from the city.

The word maw means "stone", maw-phlang means "grassy stone", the village is known mostly for the Sacred Grove/Forest (Mawphlang Sacred Grove) which has trees that has been there for more than 1,000 years.


There are Three main Hotspots to visit when you reach Mawphlang, they are:
Mawphlang Sacred Grove
Mawphlang Viewpoint
Mawphlang David Scott Trail

The Mawphlang Viewpoint has a really nice view of the nearby village.

The Khasi Heritage Village has been set up by the Khasi Hills Autonomous District Council opposite the Mawphlang Sacred Forest consists of various types of authentic, traditionally constructed mock tribal huts which was showcased during Monolith Festival but today the huts are in bad conditions and are not properly maintained.

If you like treking then, don't miss the Mawphlang David Scott Trail, it's a 5 (five) hour long trek, which leads to Mawkdok.
So if you like to reach Mawphlang you can start the trek from Mawkdok and take the route to reach Mawphlang, then you can also visit the Sacred Grove or have a view from the Mawphlang View Point.

Pictures

 

Mawphlang View Point

Mawphlang View Point

Mawphlang View Point

Sacred Grove

Sacred Grove

Sacred Grove

Sacred Grove

Sacred Grove

Sacred Grove

Start of David Scott Trail

Mawphlang Dam

Mawphlang Dam

How to reach there:

Check out the Route on Google Map Here


Look for more information:

http://megtourism.gov.in/dest-khasi.html
http://megtourism.gov.in/ecodestination.html

https://www.tripsavvy.com/mawphlang-sacred-forest-essential-travel-guide-4136711

Natural Spots I've visited from 2017-2018

Meghalaya, the place where the clouds and the land meet, is a place where there are many visitors, yet very few has changed over the last five years.

I haven't uploaded any new post for a long time, it's because I was busy with my professional studies and even though I've visited some beautiful natural hot spots in the state, I haven't had the chance of uploading any new information.

If time permits I'm going to start making plans to visit more places the next year and maybe have a schedule. But as of now all I can say is that most of the natural hot spots in Meghalaya are under thread from large amount of visitors. We go there and leave a lot of garbage and plastics in the area making it dirty and polluting the area, thereby the natural beauty is lost.

Just to list some of the few places I've visited in the last two years:  Mawsynram(West Khasi Hills), Mawlyngbna(West Khasi Hills), Nongkenbah(West Khasi Hills), Nongkrem(East Khasi Hills), Kyllang Rock(West Khasi Hills) and a few more.
I would love to visit them again and write about the various stories about those areas but I need time and right now I have other plans.

Let's hope in the upcoming year I can keep up with my daily tasks and start writing, researching and posting about different areas in my beautiful state. Until next time.

Mawlynnong and Nohwet Village

Mawlynnong Village(“God’s own Garden”) is known as the cleanest village in Asia, located about 80 km away from Shillong(2 Hours 30 mins trip), It’s  a beautiful place to visit and spend the day or two but in recent times the number of people going there has increased and it’s really crowded during the holidays.

Mawlynnong

Mawlynnong

Mawlynnong

Mawlynnong

Well the environment there is really good and the main attraction where people rush to see is the Living Root Bridge(“Jingkieng Jri”) in Nohwet, a bridge made from the roots of trees crafted by the people there, the Natural Balancing Rock, the Pengshuwa Falls and Monkey Falls(Kshaid Wahshrieh) and many more sites. 

If your going to Mawlynnong then don’t miss the view from the Sky Walk, you can see parts of Bangladesh when the sky is clear from the top of the Sky Walk, it’s made from bamboo and may seem daunting at first.

Well during our visit to Mawlynnong, we spend about half an hour only as it soon got crowed as many people came for a picnic there on that day.

If you really want to see the village and its cleanliness it’s best if you visit it and spend some time there.

So we head on to Riwai and Nohwet, they are villages nearby Mawlynnong only and have a similar surrounding as Mawlynnong, we spend the day visiting the Living Root Bridge (more here) and the viewpoint at Nohwet,know more on Nohwet from nohwet.com.

Pictures: 

Before reaching The Living Root Bridge

Living Root Bridge during winter season

Sky Walk at Mawlynnong

Sky Walk at Mawlynnong

Top View of The Living Root Bridge PC : TimothyAllen-humanplanet

Under The Living Root Bridge PC : TimothyAllen-humanplanet

Nohwet Village

A hut in Nohwet

Way to Nohwet Viewpoint

Nohwet Viewpoint

Nohwet Viewpoint

Getting to this Spot:

 Find the route on Google Map

This is short post but I hope you can find more information from the links below, if you have anything that would like to be covered later then feel free to comment.

 

Look for more information here:

www.mawlynnong.com/

www.nohwet.com

www.northeasttourism.gov.in/mawlynnong.html

https://www.facebook.com/Mawlynnong-Village-211074139018631/

www.humanplanet.com/timothyallen/2011/03/living-root-bridges-bbc-human-planet/