Hornbill Festival

Budget Hornbill Tour With Camping

Tour Code: OG3

This is a budget camping tour that takes in the Hornbill Festival. For a more upscale tour, please check our other Hornbill tour.

Day 1

Dimapur to Kohima

The campsite is located in Kigwema, approximately 1 km from Kisama Heritage Village.

Check into the campsite and head to Kisama to spend the day enjoying the cultural activities at the venue. Come back to the camp site in the evening. Dinner at the camp site along with a bonfire.

What’s included in your package:

• Accommodation at the campsite with dinner around a bonfire.
• Additional costs for you:
• Lunch, tea and snacks, incidentals.
• Place of residence: Kigwema

Day 2

Dzukou Valley

The trek is 1 hour of incline walking to reach the view point after which it is a flat 6km walk to the base camp. A total of 4 hours one-way approximately. We will organize a light packed lunch for you to have on the way up. Start your descent at a time advised by your guide – this will be based on the weather and estimate of the hour of sunset.

What’s included in your package:

Transportation to the trek start point and back to the camp site, accommodation at the camp site with a simple breakfast, packed lunch for your trek, dinner by a bonfire at the campsite, entry fees to the valley, guide for the trek.

Additional costs for you: Drinking water, tea and snacks, incidentals.

Place of Residence: Kigwema

Day 3

Hornbill Festival

Today will be spent at Kisama Heritage Village to experience the Hornbill Festival.

Try a traditional lunch at Kisama Village or shop for local artefacts and crafts at the bamboo pavilion. You can visit Kohima in the afternoon and evening for the night carnival in Kohima.

What’s included in your package

• Accommodation at the campsite with a simple breakfast and dinner by a bonfire.
• Additional costs for you:
• Lunch, local transport, tea, snacks, incidentals. Entry fees to the festival [very nominal].

Wear comfortable shoes because you will have to walk a lot around the festival area

While at Kisama, you can visit ‘morungs’ of each of the tribes where you can study their architecture, dress, food and drink.

Day 4

Khonoma Village and Kohima

Your guide will meet you at the village itself and take you for a tour of the village. Spend the morning exploring the village and understanding life in a typical Angami Village

Have lunch at the village and then head back for an afternoon tour of Kohima town.

What’s included in your package:

• Transportation to Khonoma and Kohima and back, accommodation at the campsite, simple breakfast, and dinner by a bonfire at the campsite and guide at Khonoma Village.
• Additional costs for you: Lunch, tea and snacks, incidentals.
• Place of Residence: Kigwema

Day 5

Departure

It’s breakfast time and then back to Dimapur to catch your flight back home!

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