Often, a bridge can ... For the local Khasi people, this was a problem. But around 180 years ago, they came up with a solution — creating bridges out of the roots of the Indian rubber tree ...

The monoliths of Meghalaya originate with numerous tribes in the region and play a vital role in narrating the story of ...

Khasi people have been trained to grow these bridges across the raised banks of streams to form a solid bridge, made from ... destinations in northeast India The root bridges, some of which ...

The living root bridges are made from the aerial roots of the Ficus elastica tree, commonly known as the Indian rubber fig ... conservation, the Khasi people have shown that living in harmony ...

The custom is known as “jingrwai lawbei”, meaning “song of the clan’s first woman”, a reference to the Khasi people’s mythical original mother. And unusually for India, this is a ...