Stand above
Nohkalikai Falls in May
India’s tallest plunge waterfall.
Quick answer. Monsoon arrives. Waterfalls begin to swell. For Nohkalikai Falls specifically, May is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Drop
- About 340m, tallest plunge in India
- View
- Cliff-top overlook
- From Sohra
- About 5km
- Month
- May, Meghalaya
- This month
- Monsoon arrives.
Why May here
A 340-metre single drop off the Sohra cliff into a turquoise pool, wrapped in its own tragic legend.
Nohkalikai is the big one: a single unbroken plunge of about 340 metres, the tallest of its kind in India, pouring off the Sohra escarpment into a green-blue pool. The overlook tells the tragic Khasi legend of Ka Likai that names it.
What to do
The overlook
The full drop in one frame, best late morning.
Pair it with
Nohkalikai Falls in May, planned properly
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