Mawphalang- Maple pine Farm house.. A Must stay place !!

Sharing a series of articles on our recent Megalaya trip... The first one is about the place where we stayed for the first 2 days...
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Mawphalang… A small village in Megalaya. Its about 25 KM from Shillong. While visiting Megalaya, it is better to stay in such villages than staying in Shillong city. The city does not offer much attraction, while the villages like these are extra ordinary, right from their location, climate, scenery, etc.

Scenic beauty of Mawphanlur village

We stayed at Maple Pine farm run by  Mr. James. It has 3 beautiful cottages. The location in which the village and the Stay is located is awesome. Surrounded by a river (in fact the car or jeep needs to literally run through the small river to reach his place; else it has to stand in other shore !!)

The car needs to drive through & cross this small river .. its not deep.. !!

Each cottage is made of wood; there is a Play house kind of upper part (similar to train’s – upper berth) available; this upper part is best for sleeping as it is very warm. Kids will enjoy this Play house/ upper berth concept very much.

Maple pine Farm house

Out of the 3 cottages, Cottage No: 2 is the best; Upto 6 or 7 people can stay there.  This cottage will cost only few hundred (300 to be precise) more.  It can be taken when 2 families go together.

There are many cute pets that James family has – 3 beautiful puppies, a horse, a cat, a rabbit ….The puppies were very friendly and they come and sit with us when we are doing camp fire.

Pancake - Break fast 

In Maple pine, the break fast is free: By default, they give Pancake-jam or Bread with omlette. If we need Roti, need to inform in advance. Other times, we get good quality rice, dhall and a vegetable and a non veg (chicken) dish.

At Maple Pine Farm house..

Power is generated through Solar and that power alone is used here for entire lighting & other needs !! Because of this reason, there is no bath room attached to the cabins. Only Toilet is attached. They have 2 common Bath rooms with heaters; though initially it looks little odd, we were ok with it when we were there, as this is one of the very few minus point (if we can say so); other one is the bad approach road to the Farm house; The drivers will struggle a bit to drive the last 200 meters. Despite these 2 minus, its worth visiting and staying in this place !

We met a Tamil family here who had come on a 3 week trip to Megalaya !! They stayed here for 2 days. Husband- wife & their son and daughter in law had come together and they were travelling to most of the places we visited but at a slow pace and stayed at each place for few days...

Guests who had come from Chennai...

Just Few feets away from Maple pine...

Mawphalang and Maple pine must be visited as a small group (either as friends or families) and just stay here for few days. The climate is very cool, the surroundings are mind blowing and we can have a relaxed few days…

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Closer to Maple pine, within walkable distance is Sacred Grove, a Forest area. Its better to visit this place with a guide.





He will tell many interesting stories: That you should not plug flower or any plant and you should not drink in this forest;  if you do so, snake will bite you; also the place where buffaloes were given as sacrifice every year will be shown by him. There are many interesting plants available here and Plant lovers will like this place. 

Few Photos shared here are taken by:  Mr. Sumit Bhowmik, Calcutta

Maple pine website: http://www.culturalpursuits.com/

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 (Next article... Mawphanlur... a Heaven on earth !!)