Wonders of The World

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• The Longest Natural Arch
• Manuscripts of a Bygone Age NEW
• Sanchi's Great Stupa
• The Brooklyn Bridge
• The Oldest Known Shipwreck
• A House Under The Ocean
• Telescope Atop a Volcano
• Britain's Treasure Trove
• The Dare-devils of La Quebrada
• The Chunnel
• The Tallest Living Things
• An Island Comes to life again
• The Skeleton Stretch
• The Glowing Caves
• The Great Shells
• The Mighty Corridor
• Drawings in the Sand
• The World's largest Flower
• The Swaying Minarets
• The Screaming Skull
• A Tower of Perfection!
• Ajanta
• World's Highest Capitals
• The Ziggurat of Ur
• The Oldest Footprints
• The smallest country
• Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
• Mountain of Light
• A Piece from the Past
• Crop Circles
• Cleopatra’s Needle
• The Oldest Throne
• Giant Waves
• The Lord's Arch
• A Mad King's Dream Castle

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The Great Banyan

The great banyan tree in the Indian Botanical Garden, Calcutta, is a bigger draw than the Garden’s collection of exotic plants from five continents. Why would people want to see a banyan?
Perhaps because it is so old — and so huge. It is over 230 years old and it has a spread so vast — the circumference of its crown is 425m! — that it is more like a miniature forest than a single tree. The main trunk decayed and was removed in 1925 but the tree continued to spread through its aerial roots which grow from the branches and run vertically down to the ground and look like so many trunks. It has 1900 aerial roots at present.

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Last updated on :8/11/2004