Green Villages, Red Teeth

Mawlynnong won an award a few years ago for being the cleanest village in Asia.  It is proud of that designation, and rightly so.  The village is almost utopian-like in its cleanliness.  When we were hiking, we went quite far out of the town before I saw even one potato-chip…

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The Sustainable Living Bridges of Meghalaya (or, Bridge from the Village Ruwai)

Today, I went to the living bridge in Ruwai, near Mawlynnong, in Meghalaya.  This is perhaps one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my entire life.  I do not exaggerate on this.  Due to one of the highest annual rainfalls in the world, the floods each…

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