Squeeze through
Mawsmai Cave in October
The lit limestone crawl everyone can do.
Quick answer. Post-monsoon. Rivers and falls still strong, skies clearing, the harvest festival period begins. For Mawsmai Cave specifically, October is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Type
- Illuminated show cave
- Time
- About 20 minutes through
- From Sohra
- About 3km
- Month
- October, Meghalaya
- This month
- Post-monsoon.
Why October here
A short, illuminated limestone cave on the Sohra plateau: stalactites, squeezes and an exit into daylight.
Mawsmai is Meghalaya’s walk-in cave: a lit, one-way passage of limestone squeezes and stalactite chambers a few kilometres from Sohra, doable in 20 minutes by anyone who does not mind a crouch.
What to do
The squeeze
The famous narrow bit, manageable for most.
Pair it with
Mawsmai Cave in October, planned properly
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