Track red pandas near
Nokrek Biosphere Reserve in January
The biosphere of wild citrus and red pandas.
Quick answer. Dry winter. The strongest hiking, caving and camping window; high areas can see frost and sub-zero mornings. For Nokrek Biosphere Reserve specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Status
- UNESCO biosphere reserve
- Signature
- Wild Citrus indica, red panda
- From Tura
- About 45km
- Month
- January, Meghalaya
- This month
- Dry winter.
Why January here
A UNESCO biosphere reserve protecting the wild ancestor of the orange, with red pandas in the high canopy.
Nokrek is a UNESCO-declared biosphere reserve in the Garo Hills: its fame is the Citrus indica gene sanctuary, the wild ancestor of all oranges, and a high forest where red pandas survive at the southern edge of their range.
What to do
Gene sanctuary
The wild mother of every orange on earth.
Pair it with
Nokrek Biosphere Reserve in January, planned properly
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