Festivals

Time your journey around a celebration

The Northeast keeps its calendar by its festivals — harvests blessed, new years welcomed, gods honoured. Here are the celebrations we build cultural journeys around.

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Chalo Loku

Post-harvest seasonNocte tribe

The most important post-harvest festival of the Nocte tribe — thanksgiving, community bonds and age-old rituals in the Tirap hills.

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Dree Festival

5 July, every yearApatani tribe

The Apatani tribe's great agricultural festival in the Ziro Valley — rituals and feasts to bless the harvest, held every 5 July.

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Ziro Festival of Music

Every September

One of India's most celebrated outdoor music festivals — four days of live music amid the paddy fields and rolling hills of the Apatani Plateau.

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Solung Festival

September, after the sowing seasonAdi tribe

The grandest festival of the Adi tribe — days of ritual, feasting and the captivating Ponung dance, in thanks for a prosperous harvest.

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Mopin Festival

April, every yearGalo tribe

The Galo tribe's most joyful festival — the graceful Popir dance and the blessing of Ette rice-flour paste for peace, purity and good fortune.

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Hornbill Festival

1–10 DecemberAll major Naga tribes

The 'Festival of Festivals' — all the major Naga tribes together for ten days of dance, music, craft and cuisine at Kisama.

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Wangala Festival (100 Drums Festival)

After the harvest seasonGaro tribe

The Garo tribe's great harvest festival — hundreds of drums, energetic folk dances and colourful attire in the scenic Garo Hills.

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Tawang Festival

AnnualMonpa community

A premier Himalayan celebration of Monpa culture — folk dance, crafts and cuisine beneath the snow peaks, beside the great Tawang Monastery.

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Reh Festival

AnnualIdu Mishmi tribe

The sacred festival of the Idu Mishmi — prayers to the mother goddess Nanyi Inyitaya, with ceremonial dances and distinctive traditional attire.

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Aoling Festival

First week of AprilKonyak tribe

The Konyak tribe's spring festival — welcoming the new year with dances, feasts and the elaborate beadwork and feathers of Konyak warrior tradition.

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Raas Mahotsav, Majuli

Raas Purnima (November)Vaishnavite Satras

Majuli's great spiritual festival — the divine love of Lord Krishna retold through Raas Leela on the world's largest inhabited river island.

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A river winding through the hills of the Northeast

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