Here is The Land Of Wanderlust’s Meghalaya Offbeat Backpacking blueprint around the North Eastern state. A road trip that will start from Shillong and go all the way to the Indo-Bangladesh village of Dawki. With a hike to the double-decker root bridge in Cherrapunji. These six days will be nothing but magical.
Guwahati International Airport, Assam
KFC Paltan Bazaar, Guwahati
Six days of mesmerising natural beauty, things which will leave you spellbound. Whatever pictures & videos you have seen of the place, nothing matches us to the real feel. The hike to the double-decker root bridge, along with camping at Dawki & the vibe in Shillong, makes this for an entertaining trip when you add a bunch of random people, mostly who enroll solo from different parts of the country.
The age category is usually between 25 to 55 years, with 75% of the people following in the age bracket of 26-35. It’s a trip that takes you deep into one of the lesser-known parts of India.
The Meghalaya Offbeat Backpacking Trip is an end-to-end road trip which starts at Paltan Bazaar, Guwahati & ends at the same place. From Shillong, we will travel around in a private vehicle.
– Arrive in Guwahati by latest 12:00 HRS
– Reach Guwahati at Paltan Bazaar by 13:00 HRS.
– Post breakfast hop onto a shared jeep to Shillong. (99km = 2.5 hours)
– Reach Shillong by 15:00 HRS and check into a guest house.
– Post lunch, leave for local site seeing and visit Wards Lake.
– Visit Bara Bazaar, the local Kashi market.
-Post breakfast, head to the Indo-Bangladesh open border town of Dawki. (82km = 2.5 hours)
– First stop is the living root bridge in the village of Riwai.
– Lunch at Mowlynnong, the cleanest village in Asia.
– Post lunch drive to Dawki.
– Reach Dawki by 16:00 HRS.
– Take the boat across the river for our island camping.
– Spend the night camping by the bon fire watching the stars in the sky.
– Post breakfast, leave by jeep to Cherapunji.(84.6km = 2h 25min)
– Visit Nohkalikai falls & Mawsmai Caves.
– Post lunch check into our home stay for the night
– Write some post cards or
– Spend the evening at leisure.
– Post Breakfast by 08:00 HRS leave for the village of Tyrna.
– Reach the village and hike down the 3000 steps to the base village of Nongriat
– Explore the double decker root bridge.
– Return back to the parking lot before sun down.
– Drive back to our home stay for the night.
– Spend the evening at leisure.
– Post breakfast drive back to Shillong. (54km = 2 hours)
– Reach Shillong by Lunch time and check into the same hotel at Police Bazaar.
– Spend the rest of the evening shopping or
– Experience the night life in Shillong.
– Last evening in the North East, make the most of it.
– Post breakfast leave in the morning by 08:00 HRS
– Reach Paltan Bazaar Guwahati by 11:00 HRS.
– Book any return flight or train post 13:39 HRS
