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Loktak Lake

The Floating National Park

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Loktak Lake

“The Floating National Park”

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Why Visit Loktak Lake?

Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, famous for its unique floating islands (phumdis) and the Keibul Lamjao National Park.

Travel Quick Facts

  • Best Time

    October – March

  • Est. Budget

    ₹2500 - 4500 / day

  • Location

    Manipur, North East India

How to Reach

48 km from Imphal by road.

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Loktak Lake
Lakes🗓 October – March (clearest water and wildlife)

Loktak Lake

Northeast India's largest freshwater lake — an extraordinary ecosystem of drifting phumdis (floating vegetated islands), fishing villages built on the water, and rare biodiversity. A dawn boat journey through the floating world of Loktak is one of Manipur's defining experiences.

Northeast India's largest freshwater lake with unique floating island ecosystem
Boat journeys through drifting phumdis at sunrise
Keibul Lamjao National Park
Wildlife & Safari🗓 November – March

Keibul Lamjao National Park

Keibul Lamjao is the world's only floating national park — built on phumdis within Loktak Lake — and the last refuge of the critically endangered Sangai deer (brow-antlered deer), Manipur's state animal, which has evolved to walk on the unstable floating vegetation.

World's only floating national park — a genuinely unique ecosystem
Spot the critically endangered Sangai deer in its only wild habitat
Sendra Island
Viewpoints🗓 October – March

Sendra Island

Sendra Island rises from Loktak Lake offering the finest panoramic viewpoint over the entire lake — its phumdis, distant hills, and the shimmering water surface. A government tourist bungalow provides accommodation directly on the island.

Best elevated panoramic view over Loktak Lake and its floating islands
Outstanding sunrise and sunset photography over the water
Floating Village Life
Heritage & History🗓 October – March (dawn for best atmosphere)

Floating Village Life

The fishing communities of Loktak Lake live on large phumdis — entire villages of circular huts floating on the water, rising and falling with lake levels, drifting slowly across the surface. A boat visit to these communities offers a genuinely rare window into a way of life found nowhere else in the world.

Experience communities living permanently on floating islands
One of the world's most extraordinary indigenous living traditions

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