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Route: Guwahati Airport / Railway Station → Shillong (approx. 100 km, 3 hrs)
Your Tripjyada representative meets you at Guwahati Airport or Railway Station, and your Meghalaya adventure begins the moment you step into the vehicle. The drive to Shillong takes you through the Assam plains before climbing steadily into the hills — and the change in landscape is immediate and dramatic. Pine trees replace flatlands. The air cools. The roads begin to wind.
Your first stop is Umiam Lake — a broad, shimmering reservoir cradled between forested hills, often called the Scotland of the East for its uncanny resemblance to a highland loch. It is a perfect place to pause, breathe, and let the mountain air settle into your lungs.
From Umiam, the group heads to Shillong Peak — the highest point in the city at 1,966 metres, offering a panoramic spread of pine-covered ridgelines, valleys, and on clear days, a glimpse of the Brahmaputra plains far below. The evening unfolds at Elephant Falls, a beautiful three-tiered waterfall tucked into a green hollow on the city’s edge, before the group heads to Police Bazaar — Shillong’s vibrant central market — for dinner, street food exploration, and the first taste of that unique rock-and-mountain city energy.
Overnight: Shillong Meals: Dinner
Route: Shillong → Cherrapunji (approx. 54 km, 1.5 hrs)
The morning drive south from Shillong to Cherrapunji is one of the most scenic road journeys in northeast India — as you approach the plateau’s southern edge, the landscape opens dramatically, and the valleys of Bangladesh appear far below through the haze. Cherrapunji, one of the wettest places on earth, sits at this extraordinary edge and the landscape reflects it completely.
First stop: Nohkalikai Falls — India’s tallest plunge waterfall, dropping a full 340 metres off the cliff face into a pool of vivid turquoise far below. The viewpoint brings you close enough to feel the spray and appreciate the sheer scale of what water can do when given enough height and enough rain. It is genuinely one of the most powerful natural sights in the country.
The afternoon takes the group into Mawsmai Cave — a narrow, atmospheric limestone cave system lit by guidelights, where ancient rock formations press in from every side and the scale of geological time becomes suddenly and personally felt. Nearby, Arwah Cave holds actual fossils embedded in its walls, a reminder that this entire plateau was once an ancient ocean floor. The day closes at the Seven Sisters Falls viewpoint, where the cascades spread across a wide valley face in multiple streams — best seen in and around monsoon season when all seven streams run full, but dramatic in every season.
Overnight: Cherrapunji Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Route: Tyrna Village trailhead → Nongriat (approx. 3,500 steps each way — allow 4 to 6 hours round trip)
Today is the day the group earns its memories. After an early breakfast, the drive to Tyrna Village marks the start of the most physically demanding and most rewarding day of the entire tour. The descent to Nongriat begins at the top of a long stone staircase that drops steeply into a subtropical valley — the forest grows denser, the air grows cooler and wetter, and the sounds of the outside world fade completely as you go deeper.
At the valley floor, the Double-Decker Living Root Bridge stands in quiet, ancient defiance of everything you thought was possible without tools or concrete. Two levels of interwoven rubber fig roots, guided across a river gorge over centuries by the Khasi people, now hold the weight of dozens of trekkers daily and grow stronger with every passing year. It is one of the most genuinely extraordinary things in India — and the fact that reaching it requires effort makes it feel earned in a way that no viewpoint accessible by road ever does.
After time at the bridge, the group rests and swims at the natural pools below — cold, clear water over smooth boulders, surrounded by forest on all sides. The climb back out is real — honest work up 3,500 steps — and every step is worth it. Return to Cherrapunji for a well-earned dinner.
Overnight: Cherrapunji Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Route: Cherrapunji → Dawki → Mawlynnong → Shillong (approx. 130 km total, 4 hrs driving)
This is the day Meghalaya shows you its gentler, more quietly beautiful side — and it is every bit as extraordinary as what came before.
The morning drive to Dawki descends from the plateau into the warmer southern lowlands, arriving at the Umngot River — the most transparent river you will ever see. The boat ride here is not exciting in the conventional sense. It is something stranger and better than that: a slow, silent passage across water so clear that the riverbed is perfectly visible below you and the boat appears to float in thin air. Most people on the boat go quiet within the first few minutes. Some take hundreds of photographs. None of them fully capture it.
After Dawki, the group drives to Mawlynnong — Asia’s cleanest village, and not because some award committee declared it so, but because the community genuinely maintains it that way. Woven bamboo dustbins at every corner. Swept paths. Flowers everywhere. A Sky View Tower — a tall bamboo structure at the village edge — climbs above the treetops to deliver an open, 360-degree view across the surrounding countryside and the distant Bangladesh plains. It is the most peaceful stop on the entire itinerary.
Late afternoon return to Shillong. Evening free for shopping at Police Bazaar or a final walk through the city.
Overnight: Shillong Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Route: Shillong → Laitlum Canyon → Guwahati (approx. 110 km, 3 hrs)
The final morning begins with Meghalaya’s most hidden and most dramatic viewpoint. Laitlum Canyon — whose name translates roughly to “end of the hills” — opens without warning from the plateau as a vast, sweeping gorge of layered green terraces dropping hundreds of metres into the valley below. The scale of it is humbling. The silence — broken only by wind and birdsong — is the kind that makes you want to stand still for a long time.
This is Meghalaya’s farewell. Unhurried. Beautiful. And somehow exactly the right note to end on.
After Laitlum, the group drives back through Shillong for a final breakfast stop and last-minute shopping before the transfer to Guwahati Airport or Railway Station for onward journeys.
Departure: Guwahati Meals: Breakfast
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