Nohsngithiang Falls (Seven Sisters Falls)

Nohsngithiang Falls is sometimes referred to as the Seven Sisters Falls due to the presence of several strands of cascades coming down in parallel during the monsoon. I presume some guy envisioned there were seven of them, though this shouldn't be confused with the

As shown in the pictures on this page, we noticed that this waterfall had a rather short life since we showed up barely a month after the "official" end of the monsoon in India's northeast. I reckon we would've had to have been here right during the monsoon in order to see the falls under more impressive flow. It also didn't help that 2009 had an abnormally weak monsoon, which the locals we'd been in touch with blamed it on Global Warming.

Now had we shown up during the monsoon between late September or early October (which I believe would be the most optimal time to see the falls in its highest volume), we would've had to deal with a bit of a catch-22 where the monsoon would yield the rain, but the increased likelihood of clouds might have made the falls itself hard to see.

In addition to the contextual views from across the ravine draining towards Bangladesh, we were also able to get right up to the top of this waterfall. And from that vantage point, there was the so-called Missing Waterfall, which was nothing more than the watercourse disappearing into a narrow slot chasm in the ground before re-emerging as part of the Seven Sisters Waterfall. There was a separate dedicated car park and section to experience the waterfall from this spot.

From Shillong to Cherrapunjee was roughly 53km, which took us about 90 minutes since we had to contend with slower moving trucks holding up traffic.

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Zoomed in partial view of the falls to show there's still some of the falls left when we were there

The Missing Waterfall

Distant view of some other waterfall on the way towards the Seven Sisters Waterfall

Looking into the haze in the direction of Bangladesh

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What's left of the Nohsngithiang Falls (also known as the Seven Sisters) a month after the end of an abnormally weak monsoon

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• November 10, 2009

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