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Pigeons fly near a flame from the Taj Hotel hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen have stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said.
Source : AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade

Pigeons fly as firemen fight a blaze at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.  Source : AP Photo/Gautam Singh

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One of the deepest known cave pit in US, Fantastic Pit in Georgia’s Ellison’s Cave descends 586 feet (179 meters) in a straight tunnel:

Source : National geographics
Photograph By : Michael Nichols

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A Photo taken from the Bandipur Wildlife sanctuary, The national elephant park of India.
Bandipur Wildlife sanctuary forms the connecting link between the Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary in Tamilnadu and the Wayanad wildlife sanctuary in Kerala and thus, is a long beautiful stretch that you would fall in love with.

There are three beautiful rivers that flow through the Bandipur sanctuary namely the Moyar river, the Kabini river and the Nagur river.

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The memorial of the ‘Lion of Kerala’ - Veera Pazhassi Raja - who
organized the guerilla warfare against the British East India
Company, is situated at Mananthavady. He was the king of the
Kottayam royal family of Malabar in Kerala, India during the
last decades of the 18th century.

He achieved the title Veera (brave) when he fought a guerilla war
against British occupation with the able help of his loyal Kurichiyar tribe.

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The Kuruva Island(Wayanad,Kerala,India), 950 acres of evergreen forest on the tributaries of east following river Kabani, is an ideal picnic spot, far away from the disturbance of city life. The island is uninhabited. Rare spicies of birds, orchids and herbs are the sovereigns of this supernal kingdom. Mainly there are three islands and a few submergible satellite islands. The main island contains two small fresh water lakes.

Several migratory birds are also seen here. These islands present a unique eco system which may be of great interest of nature lovers. It is 17 kms. east of Mananthavady and 40 kms. north west of Sulthan Bathery, Kerala, India.Now kuruva is one of the two eco tourism projects in kerala.

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Photo Source : flicker

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