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Nagaland · Culture & Heritage

Hornbill Festival Special

A festival-timed package to witness Nagaland's largest cultural celebration at Kisama Heritage Village, showcasing all major Naga tribes.

  • Duration5 days / 4 nights
  • StateNagaland
  • Best timeDecember 1-10 only (festival dates)

Highlights

  • Kisama Heritage Village festival grounds
  • Traditional Naga tribal dances and war-cry competitions
  • Naga cuisine and Hornbill food stalls
  • Local handicraft and weaving stalls

Day by day

  1. Day 1Guwahati - Kohima

    Seven or eight hours from Guwahati, the plains giving way to Naga hills and villages built along the ridgelines. An evening in Kohima with nothing asked of you. Overnight in Kohima.

  2. Day 2Hornbill Festival - Day 1

    A full day at Kisama. Every Naga tribe keeps its own morung here — a carved longhouse in its own style — and during the festival each one is alive with song, dance, log drums and rice beer. The food stalls alone are worth working through slowly. Overnight in Kohima.

  3. Day 3Hornbill Festival - Day 2

    Back for the parts you missed. Different morungs, craft stalls, weaving and woodwork, and performances that run all day. A festival built to keep seventeen tribes' traditions in the open rather than in a museum. Overnight in Kohima.

  4. Day 4Kohima City & War Cemetery

    The War Cemetery, terraced up the hillside above the town with a headstone for each man who died holding this ridge in 1944, and the quiet of it after three days of drums. Then the Heritage Village and the local market. Overnight in Kohima.

  5. Day 5Departure

    The drive back to Guwahati for onward travel.

What's included

  • Chauffeur-driven vehicle for the full circuit
  • Fuel, tolls, parking and interstate permits
  • Driver allowance and night halt charges
  • Accommodation on twin sharing
  • Daily breakfast
  • All transfers and sightseeing by road
  • Inner Line Permit processing where applicable

Not included

  • Flights and train fare to and from Guwahati
  • Lunch, dinner and anything ordered to the room
  • Monument, park, safari and activity entry fees
  • Travel insurance and medical costs
  • GST as per government norms
  • Anything not listed under inclusions

Gallery

Naga Heritage Village, Kisama (traditional Naga huts/morungs)
Kohima War Cemetery (rows of white gravestones on hillside)

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