Having lived my entire life in the city I wanted to see a village.Around 100kms from Shillong there is a magical paradise -Mawlynnong-a small village which has won the status of being the cleanest village (2003), not just in India, but the whole of…….
We made the plan of visiting Garpanchakot all of a sudden. It was our Puja trip, and a weekend trip as well. What made me so excited was the thought of spending two nights in a mud house, located in such an adventurous place, so far from Kolkata.
Panchakot is locally known as Panchet , was a part of an ancient East Indian kingdom known as Rajchakla Panchakot . Damodar Sekhar, established Panchkot Raj probably during early 90 AD with the help of Sardars of of Jhalda and expanded his kingdom over several other parganas. To give recognition to the main five (panch)…..