13 Reasons To Visit India’s Official Ghost Town

Have you ever dreamed of visiting the end of the world? Oh come on, you must have thought of it at least once? Well yeah? We have an amazing idea for all the ardent vagabonds who believe in the quote that ”What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”. Tamil Nadu has an obscure land for you to visit. It has tales from the time when thousands of people died because of a massive cyclone. It is haunted and no one stays there. You wouldn’t find a soul to talk to after a certain place and it has a story to tell; wanna go?

Located at the distance of just 30 km away from Sri Lanka and 23 km from Rameswaram; India’s not so known ghost town Dhanushkodi dwells at the Eastern Coast of Tamil Nadu and the Southern Tip of Rameswaram.

1. India’s official Ghost Town, Dhanushkodi is the last point of Indian peninsula towards Sri Lanka

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2. Which was completely destroyed in 1964 by a gigantic cyclone, killing as many as 1800 people submerging under a big wave

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3. It has many heritage sites,broken houses, reminiscence, relics and preyed upon anecdotes to make you wonderstruck along with utterly mesmerizing nuances of turquoise blue water on all the three sides

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4. Its Railway Station being one of them ( ‘Boat Mail” to / from Madras Egmore, now Chennai Egmore. The services stopped in 1964, right after the massive cyclone)

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5. Trains would halt at a quay, which would transport passengers from the ship to the mainland Sri Lanka and vice versa. That’s an obsolete practice now

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6. And dare not miss the Adam’s Bridge; a former land connection between India & Sri Lanka, hailing from the time of Lord Rama

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7. Also, if you aren’t totally lost in the beauty; you’d see how blistering & humid the town is in the day time

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8. It is also believed that Lord Rama broke the bridge with his dhanush and that’s where the name Dhanush-kodi (Dhanush-koti) comes from

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9. For all solitude lovers; here’s the deal- “You won’t find anyone there after 6PM and you too probably shouldn’t stay”

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10. On your way back, pick up amazing sea shells as a physical memoir

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11. And beloved OCDs, the beach is clean beyond imagination. Is your dream coming true now?

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12. There’s a queer road which has water on both the sides..

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..and goes completely fallow and dry during summers. Ghostly much?

 

13. And Voila! did we tell you that it has waves from both; The Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal which collide at the end point?

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The mystical eerie of this place will keep you intrigued all the time. Your friends may say that you got wide of the mark while choosing a travel destination like this, but this is indubitably once in a lifetime kind of experience and don’t miss it for the world.

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