Nohkalikai Falls - नोह्कलिकई ल्स

Water Falls Height 1,100 feet Co-ordinates 25.561075, 91.881484 Near By City Cherrapunjee Location Khasi Hills State Meghalaya Wikipedia Links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohkalikai_Falls

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There's a long legend behind these falls. A brief recounting is as follows. A woman named Ka Likai remarries. But the new husband is jealous of her love for her daughter. While Ka Likai is out working, her new husband kills the daughter and cooks her flesh into a meal. The woman comes home and asks her husband if he knows where the daugher is. He says no, but before she goes out looking, she should have something to eat. After eating (yes), she finds her daughter's fingers in the betel-nut basket. In despair, the woman threw herself off this cliff giving the falls its name: "Fall of Ka Likai." A few kilometres to the west of Cherrapunjee, a clear bubbling stream emerges from its steep mountain bed to hurtle down a rocky precipice into a deep gorge, creating a captivating view of magnificent beauty. A local legend is connected with the Waterfall from which it has derived its name.

Compared favourably with the well known Jog Falls of South India, it is a few kilometres to the west of Sohra (Cherrapunji). A clear fizzy stream emerges from its steep mountain bed to hurl down a stony precipice, into a deep gorge, creating an arresting view of the nature's bounty.

Nohkalikai Falls

Khasi Hills
Cherrapunjee
Pincode - 793108
Meghalaya