Rest Area 300m: The Mirror Cliff - Bhutan.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

The Mirror Cliff - Bhutan.


"Black streaks indicating the sudden application of brakes mark the sharp ominous bend where the Trashigang–Samdrup Jongkhar highway (Bhutan) turns towards a sheer rock face.Here the highway clings to the rocky face for about 100 metres before cutting another sharp turn and disappearing behind the hill This is the mirror cliff or Melong Brak in Sharchopkha the most famous landmark on the highway."
This is supposed to be one of the most dangerous roads in the world. Many were killed constructing it. "I personally saw more than 15 vehicles go down that cliff. Many of them were heavy trucks"
The workers were supplied with food by air drops There is a Hindu Temple nearby constructed by Project DANTAK (The Border Roads Organisation) after one of it’s road workers, who was fatally injured, saw a vision of Lord Shiva at the present temple site.
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I have the odd vision now and then (hot tar fumes are not only good for clearing your sinuses) but nothing as exotic as Lord Shiva yet. Guinness figures predominantly.....

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