Drift across
Dawki in January
The border town on a glass-clear river.
Quick answer. Dry winter. The strongest hiking, caving and camping window; high areas can see frost and sub-zero mornings. For Dawki specifically, January is inside the short good window, so lock stays early.
The essentials
- River
- Umngot
- Clear season
- November to February
- Border
- India-Bangladesh checkpoint
- Month
- January, Meghalaya
- This month
- Dry winter.
Why January here
Boating on the Umngot so clear the boats look airborne, with Bangladesh across the water.
Dawki is the border-checkpoint town on the Umngot, and the water is the show: in the November-February window the river runs glass-clear, boatmen rowing under the old suspension bridge with Bangladesh on the far bank. In monsoon the river runs brown and boating thins out.
What to do
Glass-water boating
The boats-on-air photo, best before noon.
The old bridge
The 1932 suspension bridge over the river.
Pair it with
Dawki in January, planned properly
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