Blogs from Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, Asia - page 3

Today we did a tour of Daulatabad Fort, Ellora caves, and Mini Taj Aurangabad aka Bibi Ka Maqbara. Today was more or less the same as yesterday (Ajanta caves and being photographed for being Korean, etc) We first started off seeing the Daulatabad Fort. We literally took about 10 mins to look around and I didn't think it was worth seeing but it was on our way to Ellora so we saw it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else, just a waste of money. Next was Ellora Caves - Ellora represents the epitome of Indian rock cut architecture. The 34 Caves being Buddhist, Hindu and Jain cave Temples and monasteries, were built in proximity to demonstrate the religious harmony prevalent during the 5th and 10th century. Cave 16 was our favorite, truly amazing carvings of ... read more

Good day blog lovers! hope you're all well this morning or evening or whatever time it may be. we're still managing to keep track of times, but days and dates have us all at sea.....mmmmm nice way to be. anyway, back to business. so after dealing with the crazy bureaucracy of the indian railways (and we're two public servants remember - we know bureaucracy!) we finally managed to book some tickets to aurangabad. now, aurangabad is not far from mumbai, maybe a couple of hundred ks, but takes approximately 7 hours to travel to on the train. and the air conditioned seats were all booked out. but it turned out to be for the best, and jeff made many friends on the train, telling them about australia and learning about life in india. they were quite ... read more

From Udaipur we had a long journey ahead of us to get to south India, the first leg being the 6am bus to Indore. Travelling through Madhya Pradesh we couldn't help noticing a pattern in all the towns we passed through - they were all crapholes. Indore looked no different, only bigger, as we rolled in at about 6pm. We had four hours to kill before the night bus to Aurangabad. We bought our tickets, checked our luggage in the cloakroom and went out looking for something to eat. Around the bus station were a whole medley of restaurants of various styles. We picked a simple dhaba that seemed a popular choice. They served us one of the most delicious thalis we've had, and it was all you can eat too, the team of waiters constantly ... read more

August 9, 2008 While we were eating breakfast in Jalgon, we got approached by two Canadians wondering if we would like to share a hired car with them to the Ajanta Caves. Got into the jeep with them, Aruna and Mike and took the hour drive to these caves. The Ajanta caves are more of a U shape and are quite close together. Some of the caves were pretty cool and interesting because they are really old, some were a little boring! especially the office cave... we found a historical cave that was now a present day office. It took a couple hours to wander through all of them. We really enjoyed these caves and got along with Aruna and Mike well! Had a two hour ride to Aurangabad in our comfy jeep, and the four ... read more

Crater Lake, Lonar The very first photo that seeded my young mind with a desire to travel and see the whole wide world, was that of Crater Lake, Oregon published in a National Geographic Magazine. I was hardly 6 years old at that time. I had to wait for about 50 years before I could partly fulfill that desire. In 1998, we had the opportunity to visit Crater Lake, Oregon. You can see my photos on the link below: http://charuavi.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/crater-lake-a-photoblog.htm We were lucky to visit ‘Batur crater lake’ when we visited Kintamani, Bali, Indonesia. http://www.indo.com/geo/lakebatur.html As is my habit, I ‘read up’ about craters before visiting Kintamani and found out that craters come in two flavors, Volcanic craters and Impact craters and one of the later exists right here in Maharashtra near Aurangabad. I was flabbergasted. ... read more