Other places one may visit are Sibsagar and Tezpur. Dotted with steep hills of about 900 metres height on an average, it has a majority of Christians. Mostly literate, the Mizos are non-vegetarian. Their staple food is rice. Jhum cultivation, a system of farming, is the pivot of Mizos' social and economic life.
All festivals revolve round agricultural operations.
Chapchar Kut or spring festival is the most famous festival when folk dances are performed after the jhum operation. From May to September the region gets a lot of rain from the south-west monsoon. Eighty-five km from Aizawl, it rests in the lap of virgin forests. Ideal for boating. One hundred and thirty-seven km from Aizawl, the fall is 750 ft high and surrounded by tropical bamboo forests.