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Tuesday, Second day in India
... Hindu calendar. Groups of people build pandals that house the Durga images. The pandals are temporary structures framed with wood and covered with fabric. The interior is finished with more fabric and hung with chandeliers. Outside each has a light display of bright, blinking, LED lights. The entire production can be relatively simple or amazingly elaborate. Tonight we visited one that was four stories high. Replete with onion ...
The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Water
... wonders for my inner psyche and I had a whole new perception of the beautiful hill station and life in general the very next day. I spent the majority of my time in Shillong gorging myself on hand-made sweets and Tibetan street food, unintentionally stocking up on fat supplies for the coming winter in Nepal.
The reason we had traveled hundreds of miles to Meghalaya was to trek to the Root, or 'Living' Bridges near Cherrapunjee, an unusually ...
Meghalaya, where the rain never stops
... are also officially explorers now as we went to go see something that was on Human Planet the living bridges of Cherapunjee or Sohra as the Locals call it, it involved an incredibly steep climb on wet stone through rainforest and crossing precarious wire bridges but it was well worth it.
The night market had amazing food and i am now obsessed with momos
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Root bridges, steamy jungle, blue lagoons
... was just incredible. Incredibly green and lush, it is well-known as one of (sometimes claimed as) the wettest places on earth. Waterfalls cascade down through the jungle, and the rising mist from the dense vegetation wraps the land in a fascinating mystique. The terrain is anything but what you'd expect from 'India.’ I left most of my luggage at a hotel near the trailhead down into the river valley, and made quite possibly the sweatiest hike I’ve ever ...
Root Bridge - Mawlynnong
... there. For such a small village, there is a community hall and a cemetery as well.
Access to the bridge is either from a village called Nohmet or Mawlynnong both. We found the way to reach Mawlynnong little tricky. Here are the directions:
- Start from Shillong and drive towards Dawki.
- The winding road continues for some time and you hit a 'T' junction. At this 'T' turn right.
- Continue driving for some time till the road forks. At the ...
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