Tourism at the border: The #Dawki-#Tamabil border and #Mawlynnong Village: India-Bangladesh
The rolling #Khasi_Hills, described by the British as ‘the Scotland of the East’, was the natural connect between the floodplains of Assam and Bengal, before the British ruled Indian subcontinent was partitioned into India and Pakistan in 1947. It was the land border and an important point of commerce between Assam and Bengal, through the Dawki Bridge built by the British over the Umngot River in 1932, connecting the Khasi-Jaintia Hills and South Assam in present day Northeast India with Sylhet district of present day Bangladesh. On the Indian side is border town Dawki in the Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya, 80 kilometres from the state capital of Shillong, and on the Bangladesh side is the border town of Tamabil, 55 kilometres from the province headquarters of Sylhet, Bangladesh.
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