Cherrapunjee Holiday Resort is a family run Nature Resort, promoted as a Family Holiday Destination. The focus is on the abundant scenic beauty all around the Resort, the benevolence of the Asian Summer Monsoon on Cherrapunjee, the enchanting and challenging Nature Treks in this amazing terrain, the Living Root Bridges including the unique Double Decker Root Bridge, which are exclusive to Meghalaya in the whole world, Baths in waterfalls, mountain streams and cool springs during the rainy season, Swims in Natural Swimming Pools that are rock pools in the river bed down in the valley, Campfires, Adventure Caving, River Canyoning and Camping Out in winter.
It is our earnest desire to provide the right ambience for family holidays in the lap of nature in this abode of clouds. Come to nature to be soothed and healed, to have great family get-togethers, for soft adventure and for real adventure. Inculcate the spirit of adventure in your children. Help them to appreciate Nature in a place endowed with exceptional natural beauty. The serenity and beauty of this place will overwhelm you. To help you enjoy the natural beauty of the area and to enable you to have better interaction with your family members, only one common TV is provided in the main hall and the rooms are free from TVs. We have placed direction boards from Cherrapunjee market place onwards till the Resort. The smaller signboards carry our short name Cherra Resort. Cherra Resort, Sohra Resort as some local people call us are the same as Cherrapunjee Holiday Resort. Contact Numbers: 094361 15925, 096153 38500, 098630 79856. How it is out here today...
20th May 2013 I woke up to see the hills enveloped by clouds. It cleared a bit but the view of the opposite hills and the plains of Bangladesh remained screened from the view. Last night the rains had not been much. The Sun has not opened its account yet for today. The sky remains cloud cast. The forests are in a state of complacency after the good rains received so far this month. We may get a few showers during the day. Though the sun was not strong yesterday, later in the day it was slightly humid. In the evening yesterday, we had spurts of rain a little after 20:00 hours. The hills sides are streaked by waterfalls. The insects are chirping merrily. It is nice to go on a walk down our roads after rain stops. On one side we have a deep valley thickly forested, with waterfalls jumping off the hilltop, clouds floating lazily through the valley, and the hillside alongside the road hosting many fast flowing waterfalls that dry off a few hours after the rains. The walk from Laitkynsew to Mawshamok is a good exercise for the body and an eyeful for the sights it can offer.
We have received 1654.3 mm of rainfall till yesterday morning. The readings are taken at 08:30 hours in the morning and account for the 24 hour period before. So far rains have been good in May. We have received till today 1148.7 mm in this month against the average for the month of 1302.3 mm. Hope the rainfall in May makes up for the shortfall in March and April. In April 2013 we had received 471.1 mm of rainfall as against the month's average of 872.3 mm. March 2013 had received very scanty rain. We had received only 7.4 mm of rainfall compared to the month's average of 358.5 mm. That was just a notch over 2% of the month's average. I looked up the rainfall chart from 1901 and extracted the information on years that had received rain of 10 mm and below in March and the total annual rainfall that year. The results are given below:
| Year | in March | Total Rainfall in the Year | | 1908 | 8.9 mm | 7178.2 mm | | 1909 | 5.8 mm | 8286.3 mm | | 1924 | 7.9 mm | 11888.2 mm | | 1954 | 8.1 mm | 13521.3 mm | | 1962 | 10.0 mm | 6807.0 mm | | 1973 | 7.7 mm | 10910.1 mm |
Temperature at the Resort on 18th May 2013 | Particulars | Indoor | Outdoor | | Maximum Temperature | 25.9oC | 26.1oC | | Minimum Temperature | 22.1oC | 20.6oC | | Humidity (Max/Min) | 77% | 51% |
River Canyoning Recce 10th March 2013I had gone for River Canyoning on a different river in the area on 10th March 2013 with Batskhem Wahlang one of our expert Trekking and River Canyoning guides. Idea is to introduce new River Canyoning and trekking options for our guests. It was new terrain for us too. I have posted the pictures in the Picture Gallery under the head River Canyoning March 2013. It was a great experience as it is ever.
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