Turn into
Jowai in October
The Jaintia hills’ town of festivals and falls.
Quick answer. Post-monsoon. Rivers and falls still strong, skies clearing, the harvest festival period begins. For Jowai specifically, October is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- People
- Pnar (Jaintia)
- Festival
- Behdienkhlam, July
- From Shillong
- About 64km
- Month
- October, Meghalaya
- This month
- Post-monsoon.
Why October 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.
Pair it with
Jowai in October, planned properly
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