baker creek cabins The impoverished hill town of Mon is in a gorgeous setting but feels like a frontier town. There s a

This historic Angami-Naga village was the site of two major British Angami siege battles in 1847 and 1879. Built on an easily defended baker creek cabins ridge (very necessary back in headhunting days), Khonoma looks beautifully traditional.

The impoverished hill town of Mon is in a gorgeous setting but feels like a frontier town. There s an SBI ATM in the town centre but don t rely on it working. The little village market is well worth exploring and like so many markets in the northeast, it s the exotic food items that stick longest in the memory. Of the numerous tribal villages in the area the closest is Old Mon village, a mere 5km from town. Tamgnyu village (13km) is a rarely visited, yet easy to reach, village with a friendly headman, a couple of human skulls left over from headhunting baker creek cabins days and