Walk out to
Nongkhnum River Island in January
The river island of the west.
Quick answer. Dry winter. The strongest hiking, caving and camping window; high areas can see frost and sub-zero mornings. For Nongkhnum River Island specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- River
- Kynshi
- Access
- Boat + walk from Nongstoin
- Falls
- Weinia Falls, Kshaid Thum
- Month
- January, Meghalaya
- This month
- Dry winter.
Why January here
A grass-and-sand island between branches of the Kynshi, with falls at its edges and big-sky camping.
Nongkhnum is West Khasi Hills’ river island, formed where the Kynshi splits: grass flats and sand banks with the Weinia and Kshaid Thum falls at the edges. It is a camping-and-slow-walk destination reached by boat and foot from Nongstoin.
What to do
Grass-flat camping
Big-sky nights between the river branches.
Pair it with
Nongkhnum River Island in January, planned properly
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