Showing posts with label heritage village. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heritage village. Show all posts

Saturday, May 2, 2020

The Cave Garden Of Meghalaya (North East India) - A Remote Gem Hidden in Plain Sight

Important Note

  1. Check the COVID 19 travel restrictions of the place online before undertaking your sojourn.
  2. Kindly note that the Distance of places, Prices, Hotel rates, Temperature, and other figures may change according to the conditions prevailing at the time of your visit. There may even be short cuts and extra conveyance available that you can avail of when traveling locally. Tourists must conduct their own research before traveling and take due diligence on rates & distances from authorized online sources. All the facts and information provided in relation to the place is for my own personal use and collected from different online sources and collated together. For more details, Click this link DISCLAIMER.
Want to avoid the frantic crowds? Then head straight to the quaint village of Laitmawsiang, Meghalaya aptly titled the "Garden of Caves". Situated in dense forests, surrounded by bushes, shrubs & entwining vines lies the untouched, unexplored gem of Meghalaya. In fact, this place is listed as one of the best tourist places to visit in Meghalaya. 
  
The caves are inaccessible to the outside world except for the first rays of the sun, which shimmer on it transforming the waters into sparkles of a diamond. This cave has an intricate network that is suitable for hiding. It is for this very reason, the Khasi tribes used it to avoid the British troops. 

Meghalaya Cave
           Picture Credit:  Abhiyansh kumar dikshit / CC BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) 

It is on the way to Cherrapunji, a place notorious for its extremely heavy rainfall. Cherrapunji was called "THE WETTEST PLACE" for recording the highest amount of rainfall in India. Off late, it has lost the title to Mawsynram, a place also in Meghalaya.