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Caves
Milu Puk
Milu
Puk means cave of skulls.There is a big cave situated near the village
Mamte in Lunglei district, about 130 Km from Lunglei town.
In this cave a
big heap of human skeletons were found. The skeletons appeared to be of
people who were taller than the Mizos and might have belonged to some other race
inhabiting the area before the Mizos came. The Legend is that these people
belonged to a tribe called 'Tlau".
Pukzing
Cave
Pukzing
cave, which goes 25m inside is the biggest cave in Mizoram. It is situated
at Pukzing village near Marpara in the western hills within Aizawal
district. The legend goes that the cave was carved out of the hills by a
very strong man called Mualzavata, the name meaning a person who could clear
hundred ranges of forest in one day.
Lamsial
Puk
The cave Lamsial Puk is
situated near the village Farkawn in the south-east side of Aizawl
district. This cave carries gruesome evidence of a fight between two
neighbouring villages in which many warriors were killed. The bodies of the
warriors of the Lamsial village were
kept in this cave. The village is no longer there. But there are
many skeletons in the Lamsial puk which recall this gory incident.
Kungawrhi Puk
It is a big cave situated on a hill between Farkawn and Vaphai villages in the
South-east part of Aizawl district. The folktale associated with this cave
speaks of a beautiful young girl named Kungawrhi, after whom this cave was
named. She got married to a brave young man, named Pnathira. When
the couple was going to Pnathira's village after the marriage, some spirits,
bewitched by her beauty, abducted her. The spirits brought her to this
cave and kept her confined in it. She was later rescued from the
cave by her brave
husband.
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