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Elephanta Island Slideshow
Elephanta Island
Travel Blogs from Elephanta Island, India
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The Deccan Trap Caves: Divine Art
This is a top pick! ... the mortal fears, and an inner sanctum with praying devotees--made the trip worthwhile. After reaching Mumbai, I took a ferry to Elephanta Island, where another ancient basaltic Shiva temple rested. In the center of the temple was the all-important ...
where are the elephants?
This is a top pick! ... the elephant has since collapsed and was moved to a museum in Mumbai to be re-constructed and displayed so, today, the island named after a stone elephant doesn't even have a stone elephant. Nada. Nothing...not an elephant to be found. ...
More Mumbai, Day 3
... 3 hours sleep each. We stalled down to the Gateway to India (well, Henry drove us) and hopped on a boat to Elephanta Island. Its and Island about 6 miles off mainland Mumbai and the boat journey took us about an hour. Really nice boat journey though, and ...
Attack of the Killer Monkeys
... our late night we ended up getting up too late to meet the other travellers but headed back to the Gateway of India to get the boat to Elephanta Island anyway. The Island is famous for a complex of ancient cave temples dedicated, in the main, to the ...
Elephanta Island - Elephanta Caves
... Viraat, followed by the peculiarly named Butcher Island and the Cross Island oil terminal in the middle of the harbour, before reaching Elephanta Island jetty exactly an hour later. Our boat was the first to arrive, alongside a chartered boat of about 20 ...
A la rencontre de Shiva à Elephanta
... quelquefois bien les choses, je n’ai pas tout raté. Car il y a non loin de Bombay un site similaire : les grottes d’Elephanta. Elles se trouvent sur une petite île située au large de la ville dans la baie. 1h de traversée depuis ...
08.08.2010
... es wiedereinmal ohne Unterlass regnete. Dafür fuhren wir heute mit dem Zug gen Altstadt, wo wir am Gateway of India die Fähre gen Elephanta Island bestigen. Die mehr als einstündige Fahrt war dann recht anstrengend, da der kleine Kutter stark von den ...
Elephanta Island
Elephanta Island is just off Mumbai, and a real chnage from the hustle that is Mumbai. The boat trip took about an hour, Elephanta Islands is a series of 5 caves - which have been sculptured and carved into various images - a mightily impressive ...
Elephanta Caves (and Island)
I visited Elephanta Island, which is home to the Elephanta Caves, which is a World Heritage Site. The island is off the coast of Mumbai, about an hour by ferry. As soon as I got off the ferry, this tour guide approached me, and he took me ...
Elephanta Island
... us some information...but otherwise we were kinda on our own. We left the island feeling rather disappointed with our venture to Elephanta Island. I wouldn't haven bothered going there had I known. I hear the Ellora and Ajanta caves north of B-M are much ...
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