Indian marble waste dump becomes unlikely tourist attraction
TDT | Kishangarh
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A sprawling expanse of white marble waste in India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-covered valley than a dumping ground.
The site in Kishangarh, a major marble-processing hub in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, is blanketed in white slurry and discarded stone generated when marble and granite blocks are cut and polished.
Spread across 82 acres (33 hectares), it receives more than 5,500 tonnes of slurry every day from over 1,200 processing units, making it one of Asia's largest such disposal sites.
But the industrial wasteland has evolved into an unlikely attraction.
Couples pose among the chalk-white mounds for pre-wedding photographs, while filmmakers and music-video crews use the terrain as a backdrop.
Visitors ride horses across the undulating landscape, drawn by its unusual appearance.
Social media has fuelled the site's popularity, with visitors comparing its gleaming surface to snowy alpine scenery.
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