M E M O R I E S ❣️ I N ❣️ M A R C H (part I)

'March' has always been a memorable month of the year. March of 2019 left its impressions on me because it was worthy to remember. Amidst of daily hustle-bustle of life it was a fresh air of happiness, a lungs full of oxygen that we needed the most.

It was a fine Friday.  when my mom, me and my sister started for the Scotland, but it was said to be the Scotland of East. From Kolkata, it was an one and half hour journey to Guwahati. From there it was around a 98 km journey through National Highway 40. Taking the setting sun with us, through the long winding roads we reached to the beautiful hill station of North-Easr India.

Yes! The beautiful hill station Shillong it was! We were cordially welcomed by the cool breeze of hills and the mesmerizing 'Umiyam lake' or 'Barapani lake'. We reached in the city around 6 in the evening. From the top of the Don Bosco museum it seemed that the small beautiful Shillong was going to sleep. 'Shillong' goes to sleep early and the mornings of the hills starts too early. Greens on the both sides of the long maintained roads and the colorful houses surrounded by blue hills-it was something for which we wanted to go back there again and again.

It was time to go to visit the small village of Asia where people literally think 'cleanliness is next to godliness'. We left early in next morning from Shillong. On the way we crossed those lovely  cherry blossoms, happy faces of Garo-Khasi children, the yellow hills. In the year of 2013, Mawlynnong received the prestigious award for the cleanest village in Asia.

The picturesque sight of the village, it was mesmerizing. The small colorful houses, decorated with flowers, clean long roads through the village, the aestheic view - all of them once we saw in the calenders and now they seemed to true in front of our eyes. There were so much to learn from the nature and those people closest to the nature.

The first ever living root bridge we eyewitnessed there. It was really amazing. In a specialized way, the long roots of Ficus elastica was used to make this strong, complicated dense 'living root bridge' which was around 30 meter long. History tells that around the year of 1840 the trees were planted on the two sides of Thyllong River. It was the villagers of Nohwet who planted the trees to make root bridge without affecting the natural balance.