Loktak

Famous for it rich flora and fauna ,Loktak offers the most intriguing biodiversity you would have ever witnessed – teh floating weed, shallow bowl-like islands Phumdi and the fishermen who live on them harvesting water chestnuts.Loktak Lake is the most enchanting and one of the largest fresh-water lakes in the north-east.

The lake is world famous as the wetland of national importance.Phumdis or the floating organic are the matter including the soil that one can see floating in the lake water which are sturdy enough to build thatched shuts upon them.

The lake boasts of a rich biological diversity comprises 233 species of aquatic macrophytes of emergent, submergent, free-floating and rooted floating leaf types.There is attached cafetria in the middle of the lake at the The Sendra Tourist Home.Visitors get a bird's eye view of life on the lake—small islands that are actually floating weed on which the lake people live.