India - our country is beautiful; beautiful and bizarre to the next level! A lot of weird things keep happening here that no one can explain. India too has a fair share of such wonders that are still unexplored and well-hidden.
Magnetic Hill, Ladakh
There is a concept of optical illusion in neuroscience; which in layman’s language means that you either see something that is not there at all, or you see things differently than how they physically are.
Located at a distance of 30 km from Leh city on the Leh-Kargil Highway is a small stretch of road that defies the phenomenon of gravity. Famous as the Magnetic Hill, it is a major tourist attraction in the valley because it pulls stable vehicles upwards. This vehicle-pulling theory has nothing to do with a magnetic field and definitely not supernatural stuff, as claimed by the locals and other visitors. That short stretch of the road that appears to be uphill, as a matter of fact, is downhill; and this is the reason why cars slowly gain power. Many tourists drive to this place and turn off their vehicle engines to witness this miracle of nature.
Living Root Bridges, Meghalaya
Deep in the dense forest of Meghalaya, are some extraordinary man-made natural wonders known as root bridges.
The rubber trees and the banyan trees were grown by the people of Khasi tribe on the banks of the rivers. The aerial roots of these trees were merged with the betel nut tree trunks which formed a horizontal path. As the years passed these roots grew and the natural bridges were formed. Their tangled webs of roots are almost spooky in nature. Call it a natural wonder or bio-engineering, these bridges can bear impressive loads—up to 50 people at a time.
Loktak Lake, Manipur
The major attraction of the state of Manipur is the Loktak Lake. Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Northeast India and is known for its floating lands called phumdis, which look like miniature Islands. The Keibul Lamjao National Park, situated in the shores of this lake and is the largest of all the phumdis in the lake and the world’s only floating national park. The lake is a lifeline for many people. It serves as a source of water for hydropower generation, irrigation and drinking water supply in the region and source of income for the fishermen.
Imagine standing on a piece of land that floats on the water!!
Roopkund, Uttarakhand
Roopkund, known as 'Skeleton lake', is situated at an altitude of 5,029 meters in the Himalayas. It is surrounded by rock glaciers and dense snow mountains. The lake is about two meters deep.
Every year, when the snow melts, one can see hundreds of scattered skulls. There are innumerable stories related to it, the mystery hasn't been solved yet. Scientists claim that the skeletons belonged to the people of a 9th-century Indian tribe who died due to hail storms. But the locals and others have a different version of story for this mystery.
Roopkund is one of the most popular treks of Uttarakhand and hundreds of trekkers and pilgrims visit here every year.
The Great Banyan Tree, Kolkata
The 250-year-old Great Banyan Tree in the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden in Kolkata is the widest tree in the world. This gigantic tree has a circumference of approximately 330 meters and is spread over more than four acres.
From a distance, the tree looks like a forest, but what appear to be individual trees are actually aerial roots- around 3,600 of them.
Hide and Seek Beach, Orissa
Chandipur Beach, also known as Hide and Seek Beach, in Orissa is a mysterious beach with a rare natural phenomenon.
If you see the beach one day, the next day you might see the beach vanished, replacing the area with sand dunes. This water diminishing at the beach happens twice a day, during low and high tides. If you stay at the beach for a long time, you could see the beach disappearing and then again coming back to the shore after a while. You can also find pearls, seashells, crabs and tiny fish on the shore during the times of low tide. This is not something that every other beach offers. The hide and seek game played by the water of this beach is truly a magical experience.
Kodinhi, Kerala
Kodinhi, a small village in Kerala, looks like one happy village. Popular as The Twin Town, Kodinhi is known for its bizarrely high quantity of twin siblings. In a village with only 2000 people, there are 204 pairs of twins. An unusually high number of twins are born there every year. Many say that it is genetic, while there are also thoughts that a particular element in the air or water in the village could be the cause of this phenomenon. As of now, the phenomenon is yet to get a scientific explanation.
Musical pillars, Karnataka
The Vittala Temple in Hampi, Karanataka is an ancient structure, well known for its architecture and unusual creativity.
This temple is well known for its 56 musical pillars. Several musical notes can be heard when the pillars are gently tapped. Every main pillar is wrapped by 7 minor pillars and these minor pillars emit different musical notes. Every note coming out of these pillars vary in their sound quality and tone. Years ago, Britishers broke two of these pillars to find the hidden secret of the music emitted by them, but to their surprise, pillars came out to be hollow.
Many tourists flock to this place to witness this musical wonder.
New Lucky Restaurant, Ahmedabad
The new lucky restaurant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, around 60-year old, is built on an Indian burial ground. This unusual restaurant has coffins and food tables sitting right next to each other. Steel bars have been erected around the graves so that no one will step on the deceased. Each morning the graves are cleaned and fresh flowers are placed near them out of respect. No one is even sure who the graves belong to, but the popular theory is that they belonged to Muslim followers of a 16th-century Sufi saint.
And the best part is that even the customers don’t mind sitting next to these graves and enjoying their food. The dead are their meal companions.
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