Earn the view at
Kiphire in January
The Saramati district.
Quick answer. Cool and dry. Clear days, cold nights, the hills at their easiest outside December. For Kiphire specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- People
- Yimkhiung, Sangtam
- Peak
- Mount Saramati (3,840m) via Thanamir
- From Kohima
- About 250km
- Month
- January, Nagaland
- This month
- Cool and dry.
Why January here
The remote southeast: Yimkhiung and Sangtam country, and the base for Mount Saramati at Thanamir.
Kiphire is Nagaland’s remote southeast, the district that holds Mount Saramati (3,840m), the state’s highest peak: Yimkhiung and Sangtam villages, the Saramati trek base at Thanamir, and long ridge roads that few travellers ever drive.
What to do
Thanamir road
The trek-base village under Saramati.
Cave country
Mimi and Salomi caves in the district’s south.
Pair it with
Kiphire in January, planned properly
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