Loktak Lake Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Loktak Lake
The etymology of the word "Loktak" inManipuriis that "Lok" means "stream" and "Tak" means "the end". The lake is popular for thePhumdis. The largest of all the floating biomasses (Meitei: ꯐꯨꯝꯗꯤ, Phumdi) covers an area of 40 km² and is on the southeastern shore of the lake. It is Keibul Lamjao National Park (Meitei: ꯀꯩꯕꯨꯜ ꯂꯝꯖꯥꯎ ꯂꯩꯄꯥꯛꯀꯤ ꯂꯝꯄꯥꯛ, Keibul Lamjao Leipaak-ki Lampaak). The park is the last natural asylum place of the endangered Sangai deer, the brow-antlered deer (Meitei: ꯁꯥꯉꯥꯢ,Cervus eldi eldi). It is popularly called the "dancing deer". The park is one of the 12 geo-tourism sites inNortheast Indianotified by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) for promotion of geo-tourism. The area around the Loktak Lake is pretty in characteristic, having a kind of flair and sense of history th
Top Attractions in Loktak Lake
Explore the best things to see and do in Loktak Lake:
- ★Loktak Folklore Museum
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