Turn into
Jowai in November
The Jaintia hills’ town of festivals and falls.
Quick answer. Winter transition. Dry, clear, the best all-round month: rivers run clear and trails are open. For Jowai specifically, November is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- People
- Pnar (Jaintia)
- Festival
- Behdienkhlam, July
- From Shillong
- About 64km
- Month
- November, Meghalaya
- This month
- Winter transition.
Why November here
Pnar country: Behdienkhlam in July, Thadlaskein lake and the Krang Suri road.
Jowai is the heart of Pnar (Jaintia) country on its own plateau: the town that stages Behdienkhlam, the great purification festival, each July, with Thadlaskein lake nearby and the Krang Suri falls road heading south.
What to do
Behdienkhlam
The painted-khnong procession and pool ritual.
Nartiang monoliths
Hundreds of standing stones, cluster after cluster.
Elsewhere in Meghalaya in November
The wider Meghalaya calendar this month: Nongkrem Dance Festival (November, five days, Smit; announced annually), Wangala / 100 Drums (first week of November, Garo Hills), Shillong Cherry Blossom Festival (mid-November, announced annually). Dates shift with harvests and moons; we confirm them when you plan.
Pair it with
Jowai in November, planned properly
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