Spot the Sangai in
Keibul Lamjao National Park in January
The world’s only floating national park.
Quick answer. Cool and dry at Imphal-valley altitude (about 790m). Clear, crisp days. For Keibul Lamjao National Park specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Claim
- World’s only floating national park
- Species
- Sangai (brow-antlered deer)
- Birding
- November to March
- Access
- Boat + watchtowers from the lake
- Month
- January, Manipur
- This month
- Cool and dry at Imphal-valley altitude (about 790m).
Why January here
A national park that floats on phumdis, home of the dancing Sangai deer; birding peaks November to March.
Keibul Lamjao, on the edge of Loktak, is described by Manipur Tourism as the world’s only floating national park: the entire park sits on drifting vegetation, and its celebrity resident is the brow-antlered Sangai deer, which dances delicately across the floating mats.
Wildlife this month: Keibul Lamjao migratory-bird season runs November to March.
What to do
The Sangai
The dancing deer on the floating mats.
Winter waterfowl
Migrants across the floating marsh.
Pair it with
Keibul Lamjao National Park in January, planned properly
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