Watch the potters in
Andro in January
The ancient pottery village east of Imphal.
Quick answer. Cool and dry at Imphal-valley altitude (about 790m). Clear, crisp days. For Andro specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- People
- Chakpa (Meitei group)
- Craft
- Traditional earthen pottery
- From Imphal
- About 25km
- Month
- January, Manipur
- This month
- Cool and dry at Imphal-valley altitude (about 790m).
Why January here
A Chakpa heritage village: earthen pottery, the sacred Panam Ningthou temple and cultural museum.
Andro is the Chakpa village east of Imphal known for its distinctive earthen pottery, fired the old way, with the Panam Ningthou temple and a small cultural museum of Meitei material heritage.
Wildlife this month: Keibul Lamjao migratory-bird season runs November to March.
What to do
Pottery lanes
Clay workshops where the techniques are generations old.
Pair it with
Andro in January, planned properly
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