- Description

Literally translated, this means ‘a place where Thasiama’s mithun gave birth to a calf’. Located near Vaphai village close to the Myanmar border, this is a small, rocky mound with a flat top and sheer sides that stands out in the middle of thick vegetation. Legend has it that one morning, Thasiama, a man of extraordinarily long life who lived in a village down below this mound, searched in vain for his pregnant cow mithun. As he sat down on his doorstep to rest and smoke his pipe, he suddenly noticed some movements up on the skyline of the rocky mound half a mile away and there, contentedly waggling her tail and licking a new-born calf, was his missing cow mithun. Thasiama was an unusual character with exceptional talents and feats who was said to keep pet fish in a hollow carved on a large boulder. This boulder still lies where his house was supposedly located.