Ajanta Caves Aurangabad

This morning we packed up our tents pretty early to drive to Ajanta to see the Buddhist caves that the city is famous for. The caves were carved out of a ravine between 200BC and 600AD and were pretty much forgotten about until 1819 when a group of British troops were out hunting tigers. They noticed a tiger walk by and go into one of the caves …

5/24/11
Day 32

I woke up in Aurangabad. Found a hotel right away. Then went off to the Ajanta Caves. The Ajanta Caves were 100 km away, so it took about 3 hours to get there. At first, I was going to take a private tour for 400 rupee, but it was overbooked, so I booked my ticket for tomorrow night for going to Mumbai and this guy …

We arrived in Aurangabad at 4.30am yesterday and luckily found accommodation. After napping a little too long we got a 3 hour bus to the Ajanta Caves. The buddhist caves were carved between the second and sixth century straight in to the rock face. The caves had many paintings of stories and there were small holes in the floor used as palettes. On …

We began our journey to the south of India by flying to see the Ellora and Ajanta caves. These "caves" were entirely carved out of the mountains using chisels, creating enormous caves and temples with very elaborate sculptures inside. Originally they began to be built during the time when Buddhism was the local state religion, but later new temples …

Sa nu har jag sovit 3 natter i Aurangabad. Jag akte hit for att se de gamla grottorna som finns runtomkring staden Aurangabad, Ellora och Ajanta.

Jag anlande till Jalgaon och tog en vanlig lokalbuss till Ajanta grottorna, ca 55 km bort. En valdigt intressant resa! Vagen var sa dalig sa jag hoppade sakert 1 meter upp i luften pga en bula i …

January 22, 2013 Jalgaon to Ellora 167km
Via Ajanta Caves (63km from Jalgaon)
Kailas Hotel 1500Rs ($28)


What are the Ajanta Caves?

The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist caves which date from the 2nd century BC. The caves include paintings and sculptures which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art. The site …

Lever peu avant 6h pour prendre le bus vers notre prochaine destination: Aurangabad. Nous quittons Pune, et cet appartement qui fut le notre pendant ces quelques jours. Merci encore à Sonia et Vikram, notre famille indienne, de nous avoir accueillis si gentiment. À charge de revanche sur Paris!
Direction la garde routière pour 5h de bus jusqu …

An insanely long trip here... we arrived in Ahmedabad and hated it so intensly that despite having just spent 6 hours on a bus, we got the next bus out. This was the 16 hour sleeper bus to Aurangabad!Needless to say the first day was spent relaxing in the hotel!

Aurangabad is famous for its Caves and for good reason, they are spectacular. …

Got my driver to take me to Ajanta Caves about 100 km north of Aurangabad. These caves were hidden for many centuries and not too much is known about them except that mostly Budhists monks carved and used them over many centuries. A stunning location overlooking the river and the 30 caves spread in a wide horse shoe arc.

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... cave then leave. They're fabulous. All different in some way and unbelievably old. Great day. Another traveller we met said Ajanta caves were great too with paintings and carvings but she was completely caved out after two days. I felt too full ...

... but I managed just fine and decided to have an early night to get an early start for the next day where I was going to the Ajanta Caves. They were about a 2 hour drive that was in and of itself an experience..a near death experience. I don't know if the ...

... was so fucking obvious !!! By the end of the day, we were pretty much caved out, but it had been a good day, never the less. Ajanta Caves I would like to be able to say that we went, but we didn't. After the previous day, we were very caved out so ...

... we made it.  I was so glad we had bottled water (which, btw, everyone in India drinks, not just tourists).   The Ajanta caves were wonderful - all 30 are Buddhist caves from 1500 bc. which makes them the oldest ...

... , especially in India. I didn't really know what to expect for these caves and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. The Ajanta caves are a collection of Buddhist caves that date from around 200 B.C. to 650 A.D. They were rediscovered in 1819 by a ...

... close to the railway station we walked to it. There were two major tours to be done ...one was to AJANTA caves which was about 107km from Aurangabad and the other was to Daulatabad fort, Ellora and some nearby places. We had the friday afternoon to ...

... a bit of money to get there. On the Tuesday we met with Johannes again and took a local bus to Ajanta Caves, these caves are about 100Km from Aurangabad and took us about 3 hrs on the bus to get there, much cheaper than hiring another car. Again these ...

... bescheiden (ausserdem wollten wir eh nur eine Nacht bleiben.) Der Hauptgrund warum man ueberhaupt nach Aurangabad kommt, sind wohl die Ellora und Ajanta Caves (ansonsten ist der Ort nur eine weitere, staubige, heisse mittelgrosse indische Stadt!). Wir ...

... though, I left them to their viewing and headed out for the day. After a quick bite to eat I caught a bus to the Ajanta Caves in the North. This World Heritage Site consists of 30 caves ranging from construction dates of 200BC to 650AD. Each was ...

... to 17th century Islamic architecture. Lastly, a longer stop in Aurangabad to take in the fantastic Buddhist art and sculpture at the Ajanta Caves, only to turn around the next day and visit the hand-carved brilliance of the Ellora Caves, which contain a ...