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Travel Blogs from Aurangabad
Faces in the local paper
... He was so good to us and helped us with everything. (I talk about him more in an earlier entry which I am yet to upload). He arranged for us to go to a local college on Sunday and teach some farmer lads English.
After looking around Ellora Caves Shakers' driver picked us up in his huge white 4x4 BMW and drove us in to the countryside to a local college. The boys, or should I say men, as they were all the same age as us, ...
The Auto-Rickshaw
... entertaining ride, especially when I was of eight crammed in (it's good many of the Indian's are small and that I still need to eat more cakes!) and very pleased we didn't get too close to the other users of the road, especially the camels and cows, as half my body was hanging ...
Exploring ancient caves after NIGHTMARE trains!
... lt;<< And breathe...
Anyway so we we're in Aurangabad to use it as a base to explore the Ellora and Ajanta caves which are sets of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain caves which are carved out of rock face near the city.
On the first day we hired a rickshaw (Bibi) to take us to the Ellora complex which is the closer of the two. They were stunning, with a massive set of caves consisting or prayer ...
2nd eye clinic and teaching day
Day Two found us splitting up into two teams again: one to the Pastor's Conference to teach, the other to the village of Duhdad to hold an eye clinic. As usual, we were at breakfast by 7am, and at the Tourist Home (site of the Pastor's Conference) by 9am.
Clint joined Mary and Donnie today in teaching, with Loren heading to the village to help with the clinic. Harvey was supposed to go to the village, but instead spent ...
Sleeper train
... man which we suspect was the cause for our intestinal distress later on.
From Jalgaon, took a bus to the Ajanta caves, Buddhist caves from the 2nd through 6th century, when most of central India was Buddhist. Amazing, cool, quiet caves with giant sitting stone Buddhas carved from stone sitting in the inner chambers of each. The second cave was the most amazing, such a peaceful ...
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