Top 5 RARE NATURAL PHENOMENON IN INDIA

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RARE AND UNEXPLAINED NATURAL EVENTS IN INDIA 1. Magnetic Hill The Magnetic Hill is located on the Leh-Kargil-Batalik National Highway, about 30 kms from Leh, at a height of 14,000 ft above sea level. The hill is said to have magnetic properties....... which attracts metallic objects, making vehicles move up the slope at a speed of about 20 km/h with their engines off it is an optical illusion. The most important factor contributing to the illusion is a completely or mostly obstructed horizon. Without a horizon, judging the slope of a surface is difficult as a reliable reference is missing. This is really a very slight downhill slope that appears to be an uphill slope. 2. Floating Islands Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater (sweet) lake in India, also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis on it, is located near Moirang in Manipur state, India Phumdis are a mass of vegetation, soil and other organic matter that accumulate over a period of time that resemble a landmass that float freely in the lake. The largest floating island covers an area of 40 sq. km. and constitutes the world's largest floating park, Keibul Lamjao National Park The lake is a very unique tourist destination. There is also a tourist home built on top of a floating island 3.Valley of Flowers Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, located in West Himalaya, in the state of Uttarakhand and is known for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and the variety of flora This richly diverse area is also home to rare and endangered animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow leopard, musk deer, brown bear, red fox, and blue sheep It is at a height of 11,000 feet to 14,000 feet above sea level in the western Himalayas. This park stretches over an expanse of 87.50 km² The gentle landscape of the Valley of Flowers National Park complements the rugged mountain wilderness of Nanda Devi National Park. Apart from some community-based ecotourism to small portions of these parks, there has been no anthropogenic pressure in this area since 1983 This property therefore acts as a control site for the maintenance of natural processes, and is of high significance for long-term ecological monitoring in the Himalayas 4. Kerala (Red Rain) The southern districts of Kottayam and Idukki of Kerala witnessed an unusual phenomenon on July 25 to September 23, 2001 when the rain was unusually red tinged Colored rainfall in Kerala had been reported as early as 1986 and on several instances since then, the most recent of which was in June of 2012. In 2006, red rain in Kerala gained widespread media attention when scientists from Mahatma Gandhi University proposed that the colored particles were extraterrestrial cells. Under electron microscope the solid pigment separated from water resembled biological cells Initially, official reports indicated that the red pigment was dispersed by an exploding meteor, but later, following more thorough evaluation, cells resembled spores of lichen-forming algae belonging to the genus Trentepohlia On further investigation, it was discovered that these areas had abundance of such type of algae in trees, rocks and even lamp posts. 5. The Milky Way Galaxy Milky Way is one of the most interesting naked eye sights in the night sky and it can be seen from many different places on earth Most of the photographs that are available of the Milky Way Galaxy seen from India have been captured in the Himalayas. The above photo one was captured in Ladakh. The ideal conditions to view this cosmic spectacle are that there should be no clouds, no moonlight, no city lights, no headlights, basically as far as you can from any source of light pollution