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Ima Keithel in January
The 500-year-old all-women market.
Quick answer. Cool and dry at Imphal-valley altitude (about 790m). Clear, crisp days. For Ima Keithel specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Tradition
- Women-only traders
- Position
- Central Imphal
- Month
- January, Manipur
- This month
- Cool and dry at Imphal-valley altitude (about 790m).
Why January here
Asia’s famous women-only market: thousands of Imas running the trade of the valley.
Ima Keithel, the Mothers’ Market, is Imphal’s historic market run entirely by women: thousands of licensed female traders selling produce, textiles, fish and handicraft from a complex of halls, a tradition centuries old and unique in scale.
Wildlife this month: Keibul Lamjao migratory-bird season runs November to March.
What to do
The halls
Rows of Imas under one enormous roof.
Pair it with
Ima Keithel in January, planned properly
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