Sea On Both Sides, Road In Between | The New DHANUSHKODI - RAMESHWARAM Highway

Dhanushkodi is an abandoned town at the south-eastern tip of Pamban Island of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It is situated to the South-East of Pamban and is about 18 miles (29 km) west of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. The town was destroyed during the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone and remains uninhabited in the aftermath. According to the Hindu mythology Ramayana, Lord Rama built a bridge to connect India and Sri Lanka, in order to carry his troops. Rama marked the spot for the bridge with one end of his bow which later became Dhanushkodi meaning end of the bow. A metre gauge railway line connected Mandapam on mainland India to Dhanushkodi.[10] Boat mail express ran from Chennai Egmore to Dhanushkodi till 1964 when the metre-gauge branch line from Pamban to Dhanushkodi was destroyed during the 1964 Dhanushkodi cyclone. A new road was laid in 2016/17 and inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, on 27th July 2017 along with the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial and a train connecting Ayodhya with Rameshwaram. This road connects Mukundarayar Chattiram with the beginning of Shri Ram Setu. It is a biker's paradise and a 10km stretch with the sea on both sides. The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patriarch by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/