Where clouds live — living root bridges, Nohkalikai Falls, and one of the wettest places on Earth.
Cherrapunji: tourist buses, crowded root bridges. Mawsynram: the actual wettest place on earth, zero tourists, raw Meghalaya.
Cherrapunji (Sohra) scores 8+ out of 10 in these months — if you must go, this is when:
The actual wettest place on Earth — where umbrellas are a way of life and every surface drips green.
Actually holds the wettest place record now, not Cherrapunji. Zero tourist buses, living root bridges without the Instagram queues, and caves you explore alone.
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