Enter Konyak country at
Mon in January
The land of the Konyak and the tattooed elders.
Quick answer. Cool and dry. Clear days, cold nights, the hills at their easiest outside December. For Mon specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- People
- Konyak
- Sights
- Chi Angh house, Shangnyu village
- Festival
- Aoleang (first week April)
- Gateway
- Sonari (Assam), about 100km
- Month
- January, Nagaland
- This month
- Cool and dry.
Why January 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).
Pair it with
Mon in January, planned properly
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