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Mon in December

The land of the Konyak and the tattooed elders.

Quick answer. Festival month. Cold nights, clear days, and the whole state points at Kisama. For Mon specifically, December is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.

Konyak hill district landscape, representative of Mon
December in Mon

The essentials

People
Konyak
Sights
Chi Angh house, Shangnyu village
Festival
Aoleang (first week April)
Gateway
Sonari (Assam), about 100km
Month
December, Nagaland
This month
Festival month.

Why December here

Mon district: Konyak villages, the Angh’s court at Chi, Longwa on the Myanmar line and Aoleang in April.

Mon is the Konyak Naga homeland, the district of the once-feared headhunters and their tattooed elders: Chi village’s Angh house (the hereditary chief’s court), the gun-smithing village, and Longwa where the Angh’s house straddles the India-Myanmar border.

What to do

Chi village

The Angh’s traditional court and house.

Tattooed elders

The living faces of Konyak history (ask before photographing).

Elsewhere in Nagaland in December

The wider Nagaland calendar this month: Hornbill Festival, People's Festival Khezhakeno, Kapamodzü and Zhavame Village festival. Dates shift with harvests and moons; we confirm them when you plan.

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Mon in December, planned properly

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