In Ailawng near Reiek, about 30 km from Aizawl in the west, there is a cave named after Khuangchera, the legendary Mizo warrior who lived here in the late nineteenth century. The story goes that in Khuangchera’s days the villagers got water from a spring flowing out of a narrow cave which everyone feared to enter out of superstition. A debate went on whether another cave up on the other side of the hill was connected with it since water was seen flowing in there without any visible outlet elsewhere in the vicinity, but no man had the courage to prove it. Finally, Khuangchera decided to get to the bottom of it. Using a large torch of split bamboos, he went inside the cave and after some time emerged from the other end, and so proved for once and for all that the two cave mouths joined a single underground passage through the hill. However, he was said to be struck down by a serious illness for some days soon after this, which only served to aggravate the villagers’ fear of the cave. After this, it was only in the early eighties that a full exploration of the cave was made by a local adventure club.