Root Bridge

About Root Bridge:

• Meghalaya’s double-decker and single-decker root bridges are unique in the world and are a sight to behold.
• The bridges are tangles of massive thick roots, which have been intermingled to form a bridge that can hold several people at a time.
• Khasi people have been trained to grow these bridges across the raised banks of streams to form a solid bridge, made from roots.
• The living bridges are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree, which produces a series of secondary roots that are perched atop huge boulders along the streams or the riverbanks to form bridges.