Golden Palace Hotel Jalgaon

... is other places we have visited.

The main attraction at the Ajunta caves are murals on the walls and ceilings. The caves were dug out of solid rock between 200 B.C. and 650 A.D. Of the 30 caves, 5 were Buddhist temples, the rest were monasteries. Some are pretty well preserved, while others have caved in or were never complete. The art is beautiful, using subdued colors, primarily yellow and red, to depict the life of the Buddha ...

... after 15 hours, when I'd only signed up for 12 I'd had enough. This resulted in me having to throw a Hollywood style tantrum and storm off the set. This then lead to a major argument with the producers with them begging us to stay and me demanding our money and a taxi home. It was a major scene complete with a crowd of onlookers, me shouting, and Lach giggling in the background.
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... the only non Indians for miles) of rice, pakoras, dhal and coffee. Wayne ate byriani rice and nan (nan is his favourite Indian bread). We headed then to the internet café and checked our emails (none for me - maybe they’re not getting through). And the rain teemed down again. We returned to the hotel with little else to do. We did not eat again today. We watched a few English spoken movies- all B grade and heavily censored for the Indian audiences.

... amp; here is the award. Gaurav’s managerial, as well as acting skills worked with a bash this time.

This awful and rather interesting incident took more than an hour. It reminded me of the great Sidney Lumet Classic: 12 Angry Men. How Henry Fonda—in the movie-- slowly manages to convince everyone that the accused is actually not guilty. However, we didn’t have to convince anyone that we’re not the murderers, but it certainly took the same degree of effort.

... but just walking off the train it is clear that this is no big city. We were here as a base to get to the Ajanta caves. We arrived in at 7.15am, and called the 1st budget hotel with a good review in our guide book. Luckily for us it was within 2 min walk of the station. On arrival, we met the owner and manager, who was the most helpful person we had met since starting our trip. In about 20 mins flat he had shown us to our room, and ...

... were tempted, we decided it would be a good bit of exercise. There are 30 caves in total, set around a horse-shoe shaped gorge. The caves are mostly buddhist, and vary in size - some were like being inside a big temple and others were like being in a cave. There were various styles too, although we noticed there was rather a lot of repetition in the layout and styles used - there seemed to be 3-in-a-row of square-shaped cave with pillars around the edge and a buddha at the back ...

From Goa we took a bus back to Madgaon, jumped on an overnight train to Thane where we had a two hour stopover before our next train picked us up and took us to Jalgaon which was a bout 7 hours away. The trip took us about 24 hours in total and when we arrived we were more than grateful to get there when we did!! Jalgaon is a hub for trains in all directions and was an okay place to hole up for a night or two as it was a practical place ...

After our touch of Indian stardom, it was cave time! this meant a few days in a place called Ellora, or atleast right next to it! These caves are all well over 1500 years old, carved some 45 feet in the rock, by the Budhist monks who inhabited the area so long ago. And then they were some how lost for nearly 500 years till a local bloke, out hunting a tiger, saw one wonder into the mouth of one of these caves! there is about 20 of them all up, and ...

Travelled with Claire, Abbey and Lauren to Aurangabad to see the caves at Ajanta and Ellora. The train had no trash can. The train employees encouraged us to toss everything out the window, like it was going to magically disappear. The whole country appears to be like that. Very few trash cans anywhere in India. People wandering barefoot through nasty smelling puddles. People urinating in the street at all hours. Smells that induce ...

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. Incredible.