The Natural Stuff in Maghalaya India

Meghalaya is a state in the North East of India, sandwiched between Assam to the North, Burma to the east and Bangladesh to the south and west. It is a stone's throw away from the Himalayan kingdom of Butan, but it lies south of the huge Brahmaputra River. A hilly region of jungle and evergreen forest. Most of the area is comprised of tropical type jungle, but higher up in areas such as shilong, the Meghalayan capital, the climate is milder and pine forest prevail:- the video and the photographs

  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The hills are all green, and although there is much deforestation of the old high canopy forest, the understory prevails in the form of vines, banana, palms and many other small trees with epithites. Meghalaya is remote, and sparsly populated in comparison to India as we know it today. The people are of tribal descent. Three Magotr tribes moved into the region a very long time ago, mostly of mixed race, Tibetan Burmese. Meghalaya is made up of three hill regions, the East ,South and West Garo Hills, The West and East Khasi Hills, and the Jaintia Hills. They are also the names of the three major tribes. They do not look like Indians but from the lands of the ancestery. They eat different foods and speak a number of Garo languages as well as indian dialects. Meghalaya means in Garo "the domain of clouds".

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