Step down through
Elephant Falls in January
Shillong’s three-tiered classic.
Quick answer. Dry winter. The strongest hiking, caving and camping window; high areas can see frost and sub-zero mornings. For Elephant Falls specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Tiers
- Three
- From Shillong
- About 12km
- Month
- January, Meghalaya
- This month
- Dry winter.
Why January here
Three stacked falls on the edge of town, reached by steps along the rock face.
Elephant Falls is Shillong’s easy classic: three tiers stacked down a fern-lined rock face, with steps and walkways between them, named by the British for an elephant-shaped rock that an earthquake later took away.
What to do
The stair descent
Each tier closer and louder than the last.
Pair it with
Elephant Falls in January, planned properly
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