Meeting at the hotel for an all you can eat breakfast buffet - omlettes cooked to order in front of you, we planned our visit to Ellora and opted again to travel by local bus. It's much cheaper and also more of an experience but I so wish I could communicate with the other passengers, my Hindi is limited to danyavaad and namaste, still you can have some interesting conversations with hand gestures and facial expressions. I wasn't sure what to expect of the caves, the setting is not as remote as Ajanta, and I'd been told there were more tourists and touts, but it was awe inspiring. There are 34 'caves' along a gently sloping escarpment, where generations of monks over 5 Centuries have carved out monastries, chapels and temples from the rock face -
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