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[[File:Living root bridges, Nongriat village, Meghalaya.jpg|thumb|322x322px|A villager next to Nongriat's most famous living root bridge.]]
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| subdivision_name2 = East Khasi Hills
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[[File:Hybrid root-steel bridge. .jpg|thumb|296x296px|<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://livingrootbridges.com/methods-of-creating-living-root-bridges/|title=How are Living Root Bridges Made?|date=2017-05-05|work=The Living Root Bridge Project|access-date=2017-09-07|language=en-US}}</ref>The hybrid bridge of Nongriat.]]
'''Nongriat'''  is a village in the [[East Khasi Hills district]] of [[Meghalaya]] State, in north-eastern [[India]].<ref name="StateGovTour">{{Citation|title=Khasi Hills: The land of abundant wonders|url=http://www.megtourism.gov.in/dest-khasi.html|accessdate=2010-06-30}}</ref> It is perhaps best known for its [[living root bridges]]; one an impressive double-decker [[suspension bridge]] called Jingkieng Nongriat.<ref name="StateGovTour" /> The village has three functional root bridges.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://livingrootbridges.com/root-bridges-of-the-umiam-river-basin/|title=Root Bridges of the Umiam River Basin|date=2017-04-27|work=The Living Root Bridge Project|access-date=2017-09-07|language=en-US|archive-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908021631/https://livingrootbridges.com/root-bridges-of-the-umiam-river-basin/|url-status=dead}}</ref> These are crafted by hand, as the [[Khasi people]] have done in the [[Khasi Hills]] for centuries, intertwining and [[weaving]] together the [[aerial root]]s of [[banyan]] trees on opposite sides of a stream-filled gorge.<ref name="StateGovTour" /> Jingkieng Nongriat, better known simply as ''Double Decker,'' has been featured on international [[television]] programs such as the ''[[Human Planet]]'' series filmed in 2008 by [[BBC Wales]], and a documentary by Osamu Monden in June 2004 for [[Asahi TV]] in [[Japan]].<ref name="Cherrapunjee">{{cite web|url=http://www.cherrapunjee.com/index.php?mid=14&footer=true|title=''Cherrapunjee.com: Nature Treks and Walks''|publisher=Cherrapunjee Holiday Resort|accessdate=2010-06-30}}</ref> There is another functioning living root bridge upstream from Nongriat, along with a hybrid structure that is made from both roots and steel wire.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://livingrootbridges.com/methods-of-creating-living-root-bridges/|title=How are Living Root Bridges Made?|date=2017-05-05|work=The Living Root Bridge Project|access-date=2017-09-07|language=en-US}}</ref>

Near Nongriat, and best viewed from the neighboring village of [[Laitkynsew]] during the [[autumn]] [[monsoon]] season as a magnificent cascade, is the waterfall of [[Ka Likai]].<ref name="Gurdon">{{citation|title=The Khasis|last1=Gurdon, I.A|first1=Major Philip Richard Thornhagh|last2=Lyall, K.C.S.I.|first2=Sir Charles |editor-last=Gurdon, I.A.|editor-first=Major Philip Richard Thornhagh|page=161|publisher=Macmillan Books|year=1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3wkAAAAMAAJ&q=nongriat&pg=PA161 }}</ref> A succession of stone steps connect the community with neighboring village of [[Tyrna]], just below the [[Cherrapunji]]-[[Laitkynsew]] bridle-path.<ref name="Gurdon" />

==References==
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