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Elephant Falls Shillong Meghalaya Royalty Free Stock Photo

The ancient falls Royalty Free Stock Photo

Elephant Falls was the British name of what the local Khasi people once referred to as Ka Kshaid Lai Pateng Khohsiew or `Three Steps Waterfalls` since the falls actually consisted of three sections in succession. We learned from a sign here that the British renamed the falls because there used to be a rock resembling an elephant near the left side of the main falls which I think was the bottommost one. However, that rock was destroyed in an earthquake back in 1897