<Li> Lady Hydari Park: The park stretches over a kilometre and has an adjacent mini zoo . </Li> <Li> Wards Lake: Known locally as Nan - Polok . It is an artificial lake with garden and boating facilities . </Li> <Li> Shillong Golf Course: Shillong has one of the largest golf courses (the world's wettest) in Asia: Gleneagles of the East . It enjoys the rare distinction of being one of the few natural golf courses in Asia . Not only is the Shillong Golf Course scenic and enjoyable, it is also challenging . A group of British civil service officers introduced golf to Shillong in 1898 by constructing a nine - hole course . The present 18 - hole course was inaugurated in 1924 . The course is set in a valley covered with pine and rhododendron trees . The tight fairways, carpeted with a local grass which hardens the soil, are difficult to negotiate . The number of out - of - bounds streams that criss - cross every fairway makes it all the more trying . Obstructions come in the form of bunkers, trees and rain . The longest hole is the 6th, which is a gruelling 594 yards . Shillong Golf Course is considered to be the "Glen Eagle of the East" at the United States Golf Association Museum . It was set in a valley at an altitude of 5200 ft in 1898 as a nine - hole course and later converted into an 18 - hole course in 1924 by Captain Jackson and C.K. Rhodes . </Li> <Li> Motphran: The "Monument of France" which is locally known as "Motphran" was erected in memory of the 26th Khasi Labour Corps who served under the British in France during World War I. It bears the words of the famous Latin poet Horace "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which can be roughly translated as "It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country ." </Li>

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