--- title: "Have you ever been to \"Dawki\"?" description: "Have you ever been to \"Dawki\"?" author: "Ahana Das" published: 2018-01-08 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32686/have-you-ever-been-to-dawki category: "travel & places" tags: ["india", "india tourism"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Have you ever been to "Dawki"? Have you ever been to "Dawki"? ## Answers ### Answer by akriti kashyap ## The Paradise! ![Have you ever been to "Dawki"?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/a08d0057-e2c8-49ed-8b41-7421fdf456b1/images/3f9ecf33-f86b-4d51-b328-0f579e6a89e9.png)\ Well, going on the trip to **Dawki** via road is one of the remarkable experiences that, I had… This place is been added to the **bucket list** of every being, while one has a plan to travel the North-Eastern State of Meghalaya. This place is been located along-side the border of **Indo-Bangladesh**, a **river Umngot** which is spreading across the **Jaintia Hills** from the **capital of the state Shillong** and covers the run of **75 Km**. ## \ ## Way to reach this place: ![Have you ever been to "Dawki"?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/a08d0057-e2c8-49ed-8b41-7421fdf456b1/images/0e7f0b7c-aa31-4049-9880-a991150b5cde.png)\ **Rent a 4-wheeler**, the best option to at least for a day… the passage that travels through the ravines, tiny villages and gorges which lies in the infinite farmland linings with a beautiful trail of houses. The journey of two and a half hours could be completed with your favorite music been played out loud in the car with a blend of the bunch of fresh fruits that would make your journey more exotic having a mix of chill breeze along… The spectacular view of the **Umngot River**, **Dawki** makes it more worth visiting… which forms a natural segregation between the **Jaintia Hills** and the **Khasi**. Thus, the trading among the countries is been possible by the cables suspension bridge that is one of connects between **India and Bangladesh**. ![Have you ever been to "Dawki"?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/a08d0057-e2c8-49ed-8b41-7421fdf456b1/images/cb96272f-328e-4138-928e-f054a6895bcd.png)\ River Umngot, is also been an amazing site for boat racing which is been held in the month of March and April, thus having seen this **emerald-green water body** which makes it ways out through the hills, accompanied by the boat of a fisherman flecking its surface, there in the plains a region of Bangladesh which would be echoing prior your walking-out that place. This prodigious ride over the boat which could get you a view of the river-bed which is actually 15-20 feet deep. The Umngot River has been so clean that the sparkle of Sun could clear the reflection of the body and one can see through it… ![Have you ever been to "Dawki"?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/a08d0057-e2c8-49ed-8b41-7421fdf456b1/images/b3aa7af0-1e00-4df5-b8b3-22598c0373bd.png) This has been my experience for this **Paradise**, while I had visited this place… and has been in my heart since then… which, I crave as I live each day of my life… **And the only thing that can be held its essence is its beauty.** *Hope, you would too have the same experience to share with me further…* ## Hail to the Beauty! \ --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32686/have-you-ever-been-to-dawki Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.