Exclusive 7 Days Meghalaya Offbeat Tour Package | Untamed

From Shillong the meghalaya offbeat tour package drives east into West Jaintia Hills to Krang Suri Falls, a three to four hour drive that moves out of the hill city into a different landscape entirely.
Krang Suri sits within a forested canyon, its water turning blue-green in the pool below the falls where the limestone riverbed and the depth combine to produce a colour that most visitors say exceeds what they expected from photographs. The area is quiet and the overnight near Krang Suri is the first indication that this circuit is going somewhere the standard tour does not reach.

From Krang Suri the meghalaya offbeat tour package shifts west and south to Shnongpdeng on the Umngot River, crossing two distinct landscape registers in one drive. Shnongpdeng sits two kilometres upstream from Dawki, where riverside camps and cottages are built on the bank of the transparent Umngot with nothing between the accommodation and the water.
A boat on the river in the afternoon carries the eye straight through to the stones below, the transparency unchanged from the first time to the tenth. The overnight at Shnongpdeng is the only night in the trip spent beside a river rather than inside a village or town.

The drive north from Shnongpdeng through Shillong and into Ri Bhoi district brings the meghalaya offbeat tour package to Wari Chora, a canyon gorge where the trail follows a narrow river slot, wading through the water at the deeper sections with the canyon walls close on both sides.
It takes roughly two hours and is unlike any other walk in Meghalaya. The group reaches Mawlyngbna village by late afternoon, where the accommodation is in community homestays and the evening settles into a quiet that the previous three nights have not offered.

A full day at Mawlyngbna with no fixed schedule sits at the centre of this meghalaya offbeat tour package for a reason.
Kayaking on the river, hiking the ridge trails above the village, fishing on the morning water, and sitting on the bank in the afternoon are all available without prior booking through the community. The Ri Bhoi landscape does not look like the Khasi or Jaintia Hills: it is lower, greener and less dramatic in scale, and that contrast is precisely what makes this day right at this point in the circuit rather than at the beginning.

The drive from Mawlyngbna to Kongthong passes through Shillong and then south into the East Khasi Hills interior, about two and a half to three hours total. Kongthong is where the meghalaya offbeat tour package closes the main circuit, a village known internationally for its tradition of calling each person by a unique musical whistle assigned by the mother at birth rather than a spoken name.
The practice, known as Jingrwai Lawbei, is unique in India. The village is small, the homestay accommodation is simple, and the evenings are as quiet as a place this far from the standard tourist circuit should be.

An early start from Kongthong covers the drive south to Shillong and northwest through the forest border and across the Assam plains to Guwahati, about four to five hours in total. The meghalaya offbeat tour package closes at Guwahati airport.
Travellers with evening departures can stop at Kamakhya Temple above the Brahmaputra before the transfer, worth about an hour. The seven days cover more of Meghalaya than the standard circuit reaches in six, and the state looks different when approached from the Jaintia Hills, the Ri Bhoi district and the East Khasi Hills interior rather than from the southern plateau alone.