Mawsmai Cave
Limestone worn into rooms and passages, lit and walkable for a hundred and fifty metres.
- Where
- Sohra, Meghalaya, India
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 25.2448, 91.7247
Get the Mawsmai Cave stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Mawsmai Cave. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Meghalaya volume with your photos and a note.
Near Mawsmai Cave
Double Decker Root Bridge 1.0 km
Rubber fig roots trained across a stream over decades to make a bridge that grows stronger with age.
Nohsngithiang Falls 1.6 km
Seven streams going over the Khasi escarpment together, and only in the rains.
Kynrem Falls 2.2 km
A fall in three stages near Cherrapunji, about three hundred metres in all.
Cherrapunji 3.8 km
Among the wettest inhabited places on earth, on a plateau edge where the cloud comes up from Bangladesh.
Nongriat 4.6 km
Three thousand steps down to the double root bridge.
Nohkalikai Falls 5.1 km
The tallest plunge waterfall in India at three hundred and forty metres, fed by rain off the plateau above it.
Wei Sawdong Falls 7.0 km
Three tiers, and a bamboo ladder to reach them.
Laitlum Canyon 21 km
The end of the hills, and a stair down to a village.
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Questions
Where is Mawsmai Cave?
Mawsmai Cave is in Sohra, Meghalaya. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Double Decker Root Bridge (1.0 km), Nohsngithiang Falls (1.6 km), Kynrem Falls (2.2 km).
How do I get the Mawsmai Cave stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Mawsmai Cave and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Meghalaya volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Mawsmai Cave before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Meghalaya volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.