Get rained on in
Mawsynram in August
The wettest inhabited place on earth.
Quick answer. Peak monsoon continues. For Mawsynram specifically, August is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Claim
- Wettest inhabited place on earth
- Cave
- Mawjymbuin, Shiva stalagmite
- From Shillong
- About 60km
- Month
- August, Meghalaya
- This month
- Peak monsoon continues.
Why August here
Rain-statistics fame, knup shields and the Mawjymbuin cave with its Shiva stalagmite.
Mawsynram holds the rainfall records: the wettest inhabited place on earth, where workers still carry the knup, the full-body rain shield of woven bamboo. The Mawjymbuin cave nearby holds a natural Shiva-lingam stalagmite, and the surrounding megalith country is quiet and green.
What to do
Mawjymbuin cave
The stalagmite shrine in a lit cave.
The knup
The iconic bamboo rain shield, still in use.
Pair it with
Mawsynram in August, planned properly
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