Interesting Places # 68- Mizoram

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30% of Mizoram, a mountainous region in India, is covered with wild bamboo forests.

(The bamboo flowers only once every 48 years and the flower bears a rich fruit, the flowering time is called "Mautam". Unfortunately the fruit attracts rats - millions of them, and this has caused famine in the area on more than one occasion.)