Meghalaya, September 11 Nongriat (Sony)
Director: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar; Cinematographer: Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar
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Summary: Nongriat – the flora and fauna
It’s
only upon leaving the city that we realised the variety of life that inhabits
the same space as us. The colours, shapes and sizes, the musical calls, the
focus with which these creatures work, all add up to create nothing short of a
performance. Walking from Mawshmok, a village near Cherrapunji, to Nongriat, we
lost our way, and ended up on a a rough, narrow and slippery path, surrounded
by this magical, dense, jungle –I’d imagine the Amazon to look something like
this – and we kept stumbling across amazing insect life, giant spiders, stick
insects, a green snake, all sorts of bugs and creepy crawlies, all these lovely
sights to a pretty intense background percussion score of an army of high
pitched cicadas.
The
living root bridges
One
of the things that people say you absolutely have to see in Meghalaya are the
living-root bridges that are found all over the Khasi hills. Getting to most of
these bridges – maybe all – requires some kind of a trek and we decided to go
see the one at Nongriat, which is a double-decker root bridge.
The
hanging roots of a ficus tree are
pulled and tied together to create a bridge across a gorge or river. After
about 15 odd years these roots fuse and become thick enough to take a good amount
of weight. The locals make and look after these living root bridges. We saw at least
five of these and the impressive double-decker living root bridge which is made
above a pool of water and a waterfall.
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Taxi
Nongriat, Meghalaya
Crossing living root bridge
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Iswar crossing living root bridge
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Crossing living root bridge
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Mossy tree
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Spider moving away from prey
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Spider moving to its prey
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Spider moving to its prey
Kids sliding down slope
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Kids sliding down slope
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Kids sliding down slope
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Kids sliding down slope
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Kids sliding down slope
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Iswar trying to slide down
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