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Zunheboto in March

The Sümi heartland and its great church.

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

Sumi hill-town landscape, representative of Zunheboto
March in Zunheboto

The essentials

People
Sümi
Festival
Tuluni (July 8 window)
Sight
Sümi Baptist Church, hilltop
Circuit
Wokha-Zunheboto-Mokokchung
Month
March, Nagaland
This month
Post-winter.

Why March here

Sümi country: hilltop churches, Tuluni in July and the ridge town of the state’s interior.

Zunheboto is the Sümi Naga headquarters on a high ridge: the enormous Sümi Baptist Church above town (among the largest in Asia by capacity), villages of log drums and feasts of merit history, and Tuluni, the Sümi festival, in the July 8 window.

What to do

The great church

The massive hilltop cathedral of the Sümi.

Log drums

Feast-of-merit drums in village morungs.

Pair it with

Zunheboto in March, planned properly

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