Things to find in India
7 legends, 1 haunted place, 1 cave, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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- Adam’s Bridge Legend
A 48 km chain of limestone shoals, sandbars, patch reefs and sandstone ledges running from Pamban Island in Tamil Nadu to Mannar Island in Sri Lanka, a discontinuous tombolo that shows up plainly from orbit. The water over it is...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Bhangarh Fort Haunted place
Officially the most haunted place in India. The ruined fort-city of Bhangarh in Rajasthan was abandoned centuries ago, and legend blames a curse, a sorcerer’s doomed love for the princess, that killed everyone and forbade the...
Open it on the map - Chand Baori Legend
Rajasthan is dry and the water table is deep, so instead of a bucket on a rope the answer here was architecture: cut down to the water in steps, and keep cutting as the water drops. This one goes 13 storeys and about 30 metres...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Ellora & Ajanta Cave
Not natural caves but something more astonishing: temples carved DOWN into the living rock. At Ellora in Maharashtra, India, generations of craftsmen cut 34 monasteries and temples from the basalt cliff, crowned by the Kailasa...
Open it on the map - Lonar crater lake Legend
A meteorite hit the Deccan basalt in Maharashtra and left a crater with a lake in it, and the rock is the reason geologists care: this is one of only four hypervelocity impact craters known in basalt anywhere on Earth, and the...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Panna diamonds Gem & mineral ground
India was the only source of diamonds the world knew until the 1700s, and Panna in Madhya Pradesh is the last place in the country still producing them. Here, uniquely, ordinary people can mine: the government leases tiny shallow...
Open it on the map - The Barabar Caves Legend
The oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India, cut under the Mauryas between 322 and 185 BC, 24 km north of Gaya. The finish is the thing. The granite interiors were polished to a mirror, a technique called Mauryan polish that...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Kailasa temple at Ellora Legend
It is not a building. It is a single piece of basalt hillside with a temple cut out of it, and the carvers worked from the top down, starting at the summit and excavating their way to the floor, which means there was no...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Konark Sun Temple Legend
Narasingha Deva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty built this around 1250 as a chariot for the sun god, in stone, at full size: twenty-four carved wheels along the base, drawn by horses, and the wheels are not decoration. They are...
Open it on the map · Read the story - The Padmanabhaswamy treasure Legend
The richest treasure ever found in one place. In 2011, on court order, officials opened long-sealed vaults beneath the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala, India, and found a hoard beyond imagining: gold coins by the sack, a...
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