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Hornbill Festival 2025 Location
Hornbill festival is every year organized the most popular festival of Naga tribe in Naga Heritage village known as Kisama Heritage Village, near kohima of state Nagaland in India. Hornbill festival is organized every year from 1st day of December to 10th December, duration of festival time is 10 days. The village is 12km away from capital city Kohima.
Hornbill Festival Ticket Price
To enter the main entry gate of hornbill
festival, you have to pay Rs.100 per person as entry fees. In the festival, villagers from
different Nagaland villages comes here and present their own culture and
traditions. You will be see here they are of one village and you will
get a lot of from villages. There are a lot of villages in Nagaland, so many
different tribes come here. so, they are of different tribes of different
villages and they also represent their own culture, tradition, food etc. Here
the type of houses of every villages tribes has they make a model of their
house. You can explore that house, can go inside and get to know about their
lifestyle, culture, food, tradition etc.
History of hornbill festival
The vibrant celebration of Naga culture is known as Hornbill Festival, first held in 2000 in Kisama Heritage Village, Nagaland. It is a unity of festival
organized a common platform, to share their culture, traditions and heritage.
Before the celebration, each of tribes and sub tribes celebrated their unique
traditions celebrate in their own village. The festival makes the unity of Naga
people.
Culture of Nagaland
What a wonderful culture and heritage the tribe Nagas have. We all should have must respect for others any community like Naga, Mizo, Kashia, Assamese etc. Very distinct and very unique people with their rich culture and heritage. Always proud of the despite modernization and yes surely Nagas are different from the rest of the country. No wonder they always stand out. Hornbill festival is one of the most effective methods to make unity and express culture of Naga people in world.
How to visit Kohima Hornbill Festival
Dimapur city is well connected by train, bus and also flight to other
major city in India. From Dimapur you will reach Kohima by bus or share car or
reserved Taxi. Kohima town is
situated in hilly place and is 70 km from Dimapur city. In Dimapur ISBT,
several type of buses are available to reach Kohima and time taken around 3
hours, bus fare will be Rs.120 to Rs.150 per person.
Other option is share taxi, In front of Dimapur railway station gate,
share taxi stand you will find, share taxi fare will be Rs.300 to Rs.350 and
time taken 1hour 30min to reach Kohima town.
Kohima is the main gateway of Kisama Heritage Village and distance is around 12km. Bus service and share Taxi is the only public transport to reach Kisama village. From kohima, bus service is available at Rs150 to reach the spot where Hornbill Festival organized and also have shearing taxi at Rs.500 to Rs.600 to visit Hornvill festival.
Best time to visit Hornbill festival Nagaland
October to February is the best time to visit Nagaland. If you want to enjoy hornbill festival in Nagaland, you must visit before 1st December, due to the festival starts 1st December and runs up to 10th December every year. So, you must plan trip on December.
Homestay near Hornbill Festival
There are less number of homestay, the village where festival organized.
So, you must book the homestay advance. If your tour plan is on hornbill
festival, must book homestay or tent before 15 to 30 days, due to it is not
available, a large number of tourist geather together at that time, some
homestay you will find about 5 to 6 km away from the place where arrange Hornbill
festival. You will try to book homestay near Kisama village.
Some Homestay near Hornbill Festival
Zutso Homestay – Zutso Homestay is
located at Kisama village, perfect for natural lovers and it is just 10 to 15
minutes walking distance from the festival area. According to reviews, 4.9
ratings, Great place to stay, location is very beautiful, behavior of owner is
so good and close to nature and nearby Kisama Naga Heritage. Contact Number
07630805519
Hills Homestay- The homestay is very
near to the festival venue, walking distance, great place. Excellent reviews
that is 4.9 ratings, Kisama village, Nagaland Phone 07005766794
ATSI Homestay – The festival place
to homestay distance 12 km located in Viswema village in Nagaland. Phone number
is 8974656930 and 9612272480, Room Rent Rs.500 to Rs.1000, per night.
Tent is also other option
to stay, if you have no homestay. A large number of visitor’s comes here and
stay on tent. To stay on tent, tent price will be Rs.1000 to Rs.1600 per night
with breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Tour package Nagaland
To book camp (tent), homestay and
Nagaland tour package or for permit, you may contact Travespert travel agent. To know details about Nagaland tour
service call 7002722770, 8721810080. Travesperts set camp for stay of visitors on
festival time, one km away from Hornbill festival area and you can book tent
from them. In camps, you get common washroom and western toilets. And breakfast you
will get bread, jam, banana, egg and tea. And in dinner Dal, rice and curry.
Hotels are available in
Kohima town which is 12km from Hornbill festival village.
Inner line Permit (ILP)
To visit Nagaland or hornbill
festival, you have must need Inner line permit. You will collect the permit
before visit Nagaland. Online and
offline process have to apply to get permit. For online permit, Open Google
chrome and search ILP Nagaland, official website of Nagaland will be found,
fill up the form and apply for permit, permit fees will be Rs.200 and permit
validity will be 30 days. For apply Inner line permit, you have required Aadhar
card and a pass post size photograph.
Conclusion: Hornbill festival in Nagaland offers stunning beauty, culture, truly peaceful and joyful experience. A large number of visitors visits Kisama Heritage Village to enjoy hornbill festival in December. The Naga tribes people starts to celebrate the famous hornbill festival 2025 on 1st December.