Natural beauty of Meghalaya: 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

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

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

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.