Blogs from Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, Asia - page 4

18 !!!!! yes we were squeezed in there too. Hello everyone Were back from Aurangabad now after spending 3 days there as a base for the Ellora caves, which are a set 34 hand carved temples, resting places and assembly halls. all made the made around the same time but by different religions, 12 buddhist, 17 Hindu & 5 Jain, some of which are home to hundreds of bats !!!! at one point chased us out!! Our journey home from the caves was hair raising to say the least, despite having 18 people in a small jeep the driver was weaving in and out of our lane around the tight mountain bends overtaking buses cows auto rickshaws cyclists taxis tractors and whole families on one motocycle!! We met a bunch of peeps in Aurangabad couple of ... read more

Christmas Day in Aurangabad Some people may have been wondering on Christmas Day whether there was a more perfect place to be celebrating Big J’s B-Day than where they were. Perhaps there was somewhere out there more fitting, more appropriate, and more enjoyable than their particular gathering. You see, some of us are not lucky enough to be able to enjoy the comforts of home and family at Christmas; some of us are living far from where we grew up, some of us are traveling, some have no family to go to, some of us are traveling, and some of us are stuffed toys. This is a story of three such souls this Christmas: two travelers and one fun loving Santa. After finding Mumbai to be a tad on the dull side, or more politely speaking, ... read more

www.diariodeunviaje.com (todo en nuestra pagina web) CUEVAS DE AJANTA Y ELLORA (2-4/12) El tren nocturno de Jabalpur a Jalgaon va con mas de 5 horas de retraso y desde las 21:30h esperamos en la estacion hasta las 3:00 a.m., hora en que llega (245R/p, sleeper class, 10h + 5h de espera para recorrer 577km). Lo de los trenes en India es desesperante, pero lo peor fue lo que nos esperaba despues. Nuestro billete era en sleeper class (porque no habia plazas en AC) y el compartimento estaba abarrotado de gente, muchos con billete en lista de espera sin confirmar y otros sin billete. Tuvimos que despertar a varias personas que estaban durmiendo en nuestras literas. Los que estaban sin asiento en los pasillos estuvieron hablando toda la noche y aprovechando los momentos en los que cambiabamos ... read more

We hooked up with a private bus in Mumbai heading east to Aurangabad, our next stop as it lay between two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: The Ellora Caves and the Ajanta caves. Also, the Dalautabad fort was on the way to Ellora and sounded pretty cool. The bus ride itself was an interesting experience, as several Indians chose to sleep in the aisle and the largest Muslim known to man sat across from me and proceeded to choke on cats all night, or so it sounded like. On the bus we met a nice Italian woman, Penelope, who at great length insisted she join us on day 2 when we explore Ajanta. Day 1: Ellora and the Fort The Ellora caves are a series of 34 caves built into a rock wall (some carved downwards so ... read more

The Ajanta caves are a world heritage site only a few miles from Jalgaon. The didnt disappoint. The caves are in a horse shaped ravine and were first disovered in 1819 by the brits out shooting tigers(whose grafity ruined some of the caves paintings). It housed buddist monks but was abandoned for unknown reason. Anyway they were pretty cool but i didnt think as good as Ellora(especially the Kalish cave). Some of the paintings were brilliant and some of the hollow columns were amazing aswell. The carvings of the buddha's(especially the sleeping one) that you can see in the photos were pretty cool aswell. We tried to walk up to the mountain viewpoint were the british first spotted the caves but the throngs of beggers and people who may aswell be selling bags of shite instead ... read more