📍 Heritage📍 Cultural📍 Museum

Ramakrishna Mission, Cherrapunji

Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India

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Overview

A mission and cultural museum in Sohra preserving Khasi tribal artefacts, textiles and the region's educational heritage.

Why visit: Khasi culture and history in the heart of old Sohra.

Things to do

›Khasi artefacts
›Cultural museum
›Old Sohra
›Heritage grounds

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–May

Entry fee

₹10–30

Est. budget

₹100–200

Duration

1 hr

Nearby attractions

Within

0.3 km

⛰️ Hill Station

4.7

Cherrapunji (Sohra)

Cherrapunji, Meghalaya

One of the wettest places on earth — a plateau of thundering waterfalls, deep gorges, living root bridges and endless views over the Bangladesh plains.

Sep–May (falls best after monsoon)1–2 daysExplore

0.4 km

📍 Village

4.4

Mawsynram

Mawsynram, Meghalaya

The wettest place on earth by average annual rainfall — a cloud-wrapped village of waterfalls, caves and the famous Mawjymbuin stalagmite shivling.

Sep–Nov (post-monsoon)Half–full dayExplore

0.6 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Cave

4.3

Mawjymbuin Cave

Mawsynram, Meghalaya

A limestone cave at Mawsynram famed for a huge naturally-formed stalagmite resembling a Shiva-lingam, dripped into shape over millennia.

Oct–May1 hrExplore

3.3 km

📍 Park

4.0

Lum Nehru Park (Cherrapunji)

Cherrapunji, Meghalaya

A landscaped garden park in Sohra with orchid houses, an observation tower and views over the Cherrapunji plateau.

Oct–May1 hrExplore

3.9 km

💎 Hidden Gem🌄 Viewpoint

4.0

Mawshun / Mawlong Village Viewpoints

Sohra, Meghalaya

Ridge villages on the Sohra plateau with dramatic edge-of-cliff views over the gorges toward Bangladesh.

Oct–May1–2 hrsExplore

7.1 km

💎 Hidden Gem💧 Waterfall

4.5

Wei Sawdong Falls

Cherrapunji, Meghalaya

A magical three-tiered waterfall near Sohra tumbling into vivid blue-green pools, reached by a steep bamboo-ladder descent.

Oct–AprHalf dayExplore

7.4 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Village

4.4

Mawlyngbna

Mawlyngbna, Meghalaya

An adventure-tourism village near Mawsynram with kayaking on a spring-fed lake, marine fossils, waterfalls, ziplining and camping.

Oct–May1–2 daysExplore

8.7 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Trek

4.7

Khasi villagers train rubber-fig roots across rivers for decades until they grow into self-strengthening living bridges — the double-decker at Nongriat, reached by 3,500 jungle steps, is the masterpiece of this UNESCO-tentative bio-engineering.

Oct–Apr1–2 daysExplore

9.2 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Nature

4.0

Cherrapunji Tea & Orange Gardens (Riat Laban)

Cherrapunji, Meghalaya

The orange and tea slopes around Sohra and Laitkynsew, where the famed Khasi mandarin oranges and small tea plots dot the hillsides.

Nov–Feb (orange season)Half dayExplore

9.7 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Heritage

4.4

Ummunoi Root Bridge

Laitkynsew, Meghalaya

One of the oldest known living root bridges, near Nongriat, spanning a clear stream in a quiet jungle gorge.

Oct–AprHalf–full dayExplore

9.7 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Heritage

4.9

Double Decker Living Root Bridge (Nongriat)

Nongriat, Meghalaya

The world-famous two-tiered living root bridge at Nongriat — grown over generations from rubber-tree roots by the Khasi, reached by a ~3,500-step descent.

Oct–AprFull dayExplore

9.8 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Heritage

4.4

Ritymmen Root Bridge

Nongriat, Meghalaya

One of the longest living root bridges, on the trail to Nongriat, stretching gracefully across a jungle river.

Oct–AprHalf–full dayExplore