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Ajanta
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The Deccan Trap Caves: Divine Art
This is a top pick! ... , they would find solace and shelter while they listened to the waterfalls cascading from the cliffs outside. As I traveled to Ajanta, Ellora, Aurangabad, and Ellephanta caves, I imagined dozens of different scenes of yore. The oldest cave was in ...
Ajanta and Ellora Caves - Maharastra
On my travels again and looking through the lonely planet book and noticed that Ajanta was a highlight. The journey took 7 hours in a car from my dads house in Vesma Gujarat to Aurangabad. On our way we stopped off at Daulatabad to see the fort, Chand ...
Big old caves
... and made our way back to the main road where we caught the Jalgaon bus taking us to Aurangabad. Aurangabad is much bigger than Ajanta, but for travelers it's just the jumping point to see a nearby fort and the Ellora caves outside of the city. When ...
Ancient Buddhist caves, murals and sculpture
Fabulous archeology site from long ago, discovered late 1800s by British officer hunting tigers. Memorable. Not too well known. One of high lights of our travels as was nearby Ellora with temples, Buddhist and Hindu carved out of rock out crops. ...
Ajanta
... waters were beginning to run in the river at the bottom. Further down from the caves is a series of seven waterfalls, which is also beautiful. From Ajanta we took the bus to Aurangabad, hoping to make it back to Mumbai on an overnight ...
Buddhist Caves
Here I visited a network of 28 different Buddhist caves. Some had old paintings preserved in them. Others had remarkable large rooms with columns carved in the stone, others with high arched ceilings. Quite impressive considering some of ...
Ajanta caves
Ajanta is set into a beautiful crescent moon valley with a small stream at the bottom fed by a pretty waterfall at one end. The caves have all been cut out of the rock wall escarpment on the outside curve of the bend in the valley. There are now small ...
Ajanta
... waters were beginning to run in the river at the bottom. Further down from the caves is a series of seven waterfalls, which is also beautiful. From Ajanta we took the bus to Aurangabad, hoping to make it back to Mumbai on an overnight ...
Ajanta Caves
... last 24 hours. Phil had a quick complimentary cup of chai before we left and then we caught the bus from Jalgaon to Ajanta Caves. The gorge and caves were really cool to look around. There were some interesting sculptures to look at and the surroundings ...
Holi'd!
... . Naturally, given what we had read in our guidebook the previous afternoon, we were quite excited about our trip to Ajanta. After another absurd experience at the breakfast table in which five grown men spent 45 minutes serving us one weak tea and ...
Just Two Heterosexual Guys....
We went to see the World Heritage listed caves at Ajanta today. The admission fee was 250 rupees for foreigners and only 10 rupees for Indians - I'm kind of getting used to it now because it's like that all over India but it's still b*llocks! We met 3 ...
Buddhist Caves of Ajanta
I was alone again. A couple days later after saying goodbye to Christina in Agra, I arrived in Ajanta, home to some of the most amazing Buddhist cave temples. Though I don't know how, I managed to hop a rickshaw, a bus, a jeep and another bus to the ...
On to Aurangabad
... Ajanta is a good 110 km drive NE of Aurangabad. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 30 rock-cut caves at Ajanta lie within a horseshoe-shaped escarpment overlooking the Waghora river gorge. They were "rediscovered" accidentally in 1819, when John Smith ...
Ajanta Caves
The Ajanta Caves are one of India's World Heritage Sites. These Buddhist caves date back to 200BC - 200AD. There are 24 caves carved into the escarpment. There are incredible paintings inside some of the caves, all ...
Look! A Big Buddha!
... desirable, we spent the next two days exploring the caves of Ajanta and Ellora, and the trip was well worth the time. The Ajanta caves are comprised of 30 carvings that were created from the 2nd century BC to the 6th century AD by Buddist monks. The ...
Ajanta Caves
... in the sub-continent) in the 19th century by too chaps on a tiger shoot. To witness the complexity of the Ajanta caves, its artistic achievement, and then contemplate the obvious wealth and sophistication of the society that created it provokes many ...
South Asians think I'm a pimp
... . Afterwards, 3 of them came up to me, thanked me and shook my hand. None thanked Abbey. It was pretty strange. The Ajanta and Ellora caves are magnificent. The intricacy of the carving and the size of the buildings is on par with Ankor Wat, but ...
Some seriously impressive Caves
... me and tell me not to worry! Cearly the scream was loader than I thought! Ellora was enven more impressive than Ajanta, especially "Cave 16" a huge hindu temple that had been carved out of the hill side, forming the worlds largest stone monolithic ...
Bushcamp III + Camp IV
Eigentlich hani gmeint i sig de hüt wieder chli besser zwäg, da mir hei wölle ga Höhline aluege mit so Wandverzierige. Wo mir aber dert si gsi und sie üs gseit hei, dass äs öppe 5h geit bis mir de wieder zrüg si, hani mi entschlosse glich nid mit ...
Jaglaon
That night after a 5 hour bus trip we arrived in Jaglaon. This is more of a town to base yourself for visiting the caves and better transport to other parts of the country. I stayed here a couple of days, walking the markets and resting. I had to now ...
The Alluring Ajanta caves
... one. We passed by the small towns like Phulbri, Sillod and Golegaon through the sunflower and sugarcane fields before reaching the destination. At Ajanta village we had to change one more time. We took a shared taxi to the last leg at the entrance of the ...
ajanta caves
We had a choice...of how to get to the caves 1. Go by public bus - only go every hour and take maybe 2+hours to get there 2 Go by tour bus with guide included if and only if more than 10 people are on the tour - 300Rps 8am until 5pm - would mean that ...
Time Limitations
A day trip by bus to the extraordinary Buddhist caves at Ajanta. The tour conducted in typical Indian style, with "time limitations" on visiting each cave and lots of rules about what you can and can't do (shoes off, no flash photography, ...
Ajanta Caves
Ajanta is a series of Buddhist caves constructed between 200 BC and 650 AD. Some of the caves are influenced by the Hinyana School and some are influenced by Mahayana. One group of caves have stupas and they do not have any form of decorative elements. It ...
Buddhist Caves
... . But the destination was well worth it. The caves were carved out of the mountain side in a crescent like shape. The Ajanta caves, excavated from 200B.C to 650AD were built as a retreat for Buddhist monks. As Buddhism began to decline, the caves were ...
The Caves
While the Ellora Caves are supposed to be more impressie, they weren't open on a Tuesday! But Ajanta seemed pretty darn impressive to us. Though, it wasn't the best place for Delhi belly to strike! Damn that tempting fresh lime juice! ...
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