Day 3

Wake up call at 6:30 am. Today we were to visit the Mawsynram caves. But our first place to visit was Elephant falls. It’s a picture postcard waterfall but the chaos created by the public makes it loose its sheen. This fall has three points of view. The first one is ok but not good. The second one is fine but not overwhelming and the third one is not allowed to anyone! So after climbing down a fleet of stairs, we reached the base of phase two of the falls. Clicked some photographs here and turned towards prime location of the day- Mawsynram caves. It was a 44 km journey from Shillong to Mawsynram. The driver being a new to this area we had to stop at intervals to ask for directions. We were driving through hills and valleys. On the way saw pretty tribal villages. They were small but well kept and maintained. A peculiarity of houses here is that every house has a many potted plants and almost every plant has loads of flowers on it. It feels so nice to look at these houses. Many women carrying new born kids on their back made a nice picture. After a drive of about 3 hours we reached Mawsynram caves.

Mawsynram cave is a silent place. It has a claming effect. In spite of being naturally carved it is overwhelming. A “ling” of Lord Shankar is formed out of stalagmites here. The naturally formed “ling” is huge in size. After praying we traced our way back to Shillong. On the way we had a punctured wheel-twice. We got back to Shillong by afternoon. In Shillong our driver was looking for a garage to fix his spare wheel, but it being a Sunday all the garages in the city were shut down. We had to go to Majuli next day which was a 100km drive so our vehicle being ready was our utmost concern. Our tour plan said that today evening we were to visit the Shillong city. So our driver arranged three taxis for us. We first visited the cathedral of shillong. It is the biggest cathedral in the North-East. After spending some 15-20 minutes here we moved on to next destination that was Wurd’s lake. This is a nice place but again marred by the crowds. From here we went to the golf rink of Shillong. It is more of a park than a golf course. After spending some time here and chalking out plan for the next day we moved to the police bazaar of Shillong. Over here we had lunch at a Hotel named Broadway. It was nice and had no wall in side they had mobile partitions which were placed according to the requirements of the customers. Had a nice cozy dinner and returned back to Hotel.