Mapping Memories

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Mon in March

The land of the Konyak and the tattooed elders.

Quick answer. Post-winter. Days warm, hills stay green from the dry-season clear skies. For Mon specifically, March is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.

Konyak hill district landscape, representative of Mon
March in Mon

The essentials

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

Why March 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 March, planned properly

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