Explore These 10 Enigmatic Places While Volunteering in India

Explore These 10 Enigmatic Places While Volunteering in India

India is known for its cultural beauty and enigmatic history. There are a number of

places in India that have some unexplainable stories and features attached to them.

While some showcase amazing architectural brilliance and grandeur, there are few

places that sustains some natural phenomenon that even experts are finding hard to

define. Volunteering India brings you a list of 10 such intriguing and enigmatic places

to discover while on a volunteering trip to India.

1. Kumbhalgarh Fort

“The Great Wall of India”

This is the longest wall in the world

after the “Great Wall of China”. Built in

the 15th century in the Rajsamand

district of Rajasthan, the wall of this

fort stretch up to 36kms; justifying its

invincibility. The fort is constructed at

3600ft. above sea level at the hilltop

on the Aravalli range.

2. Karni Mata Mandir Rajasthan

At around 30kms from the city of Bikaner, is this

intriguingly beautiful temple of Goddess Karni;

also known as the temple of rats. Yes! You read

that right. The temple is a house to almost

20,000 black rats that are considered to be holy

and given high regards by the visitors. The

entire premises is filled with these rats, yet

nothing in the temple is contagious, neither will

you feel any kind of unhygienic condition there.

3. Malana Himachal Pradesh

Considered to be one of the oldest

democracies in the world, Malana is a small

village located in amidst the lush green

valley of Parvati. The people here consider

themselves superior to anyone from outside

the village, as them being the descendant of

Alexander the Great, and belong to the

Aryan race. The village has its own council

and does not follow the Indian judiciary.  

Volunteers under Delhi or Palampur projects can visit this interesting village over any of the weekends.

4. The Great Banayan Tree Kolkata

When you visit the Acharya Jagadish

Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden,

Howrah, near Kolkata, what will get your

attention at the first is this set of around

3600 aerial roots that appears to be

individual trees. The tree is around 250

years old and is said to be the widest

spread banyan tree in India; probably the

world too.

5. Magnetic HillLaddakh

What, according to you, should happen when

you turn the engine of your vehicle off while

traveling up on a steep road? Moving in

backwards direction!? Guess what, there is place

in India where vehicles actually move ahead

even with engines off on an upward hill road. On

the Leh-Kargil-Srinagar highway, some 30kms

from Leh at a height of 11000 feet is a section of

road where you can experience this magnetic

pull effect.

6. Floating Stones Rameshwaram

At the tip of the southern region of India is

the island district of Rameshwaram, also

considered to be the place from where Lord

Ram started building the Ram Setu (or the

Adam’s Bridge). Witnesses speak about the

presence of the floating stones that were

used to made the bridge with the name of

Lord Ram still inscribed over them, in the

Ramanathaswamy temple.

Volunteers working under the South India projects can choose any of the free weekends to give a visit to this place.

7. Levitating Stone of Shivapur,Maharashtra

In a small village of Shivapur, in the Pune

district of Maharashtra state resides

another “unsolved mystery”. At one of the

shrines,  that belongs to a sufi saint named

Qamar Ali, stands a 200Kgs heavy stone.

This stone is said to levitate in the air for

hours when touched by 11 people from

their fingers while shouting the name of

the Sufi saint.

8. Mysterious Sound of Ganga – Brahmaputra Delta

West Bengal

Also known as the Ganges Delta, in the West

Bengal region of India one can hear some

mysterious sounds akin to the boom of a

supersonic jet or an airplane. The occurrence

of these sounds have been recorded as old

as a century back. Researchers are said to

believe this phenomenon to occur due to the

presence of magnetic field in high pressure

air, but are still not sure on this theory.

9. Hanging Pillar

Andhra Pradesh

In the village of Lepakshi, some 110kms

from the city of Bengaluru, is one mystical

wonder of India that is a must visit by all.

Considered to be the gem of a work of

ancient engineering and architecture, there

is a pillar in the temple of Lepakshi, which

does not rest on the ground fully and one

can pass thin objects underneath it to

confirm.

10. Door-less houses

Shani Shignapur

Another village in the state of Maharashtra,

Shani Shignapur, is considered to be a theft-

free village. The interesting part about the

village is that there are no doors or locks to

any house or shops in the village; not even

at the only bank in the village. The natives to

this village consider the temple of Lord Shani

to be a “live temple” and believe that the

God is protecting them and their belongings.

Most of these places are located in close vicinity to the destinations where Volunteering India programs are conducted, providing an open window to make your weekend excursions more exciting. And while, these are just the 10 to mention, the country is filled with such enigmatic places all over.

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