Dhanushkodi ghost town and land's end

Rameswaram

At the very tip of the Rameswaram island — 18 kilometres beyond the main town — lies Dhanushkodi, a town destroyed by a catastrophic cyclone in 1964 and never rebuilt. The ruins of the station, church, and railway tracks emerge from the sand dunes like a half-buried memory, and beyond them the land narrows to a thin sandspit where the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean meet in two different shades of blue. It is otherworldly and deeply moving.