Excellent place to go to... The monolithic rock cut caves are a treat to watch. The scintillating caves and the sculptures in them are mind boggling. The Buddha / shiv statues are exquisitely and painstakingly carved. A defin...
Beautiful work of art, Artistic perseverance of some really capable people for all of us to see and admire before it hide itself into envelope of time. Such serenity around that one feels like becoming a monk himself....
these two places offer an absolutely amazing account of buddhist and jain culture. destination and sight seeing are akin. art and ornamentation, are but of course praiseworthy, the arrangements too. provision for water, drain...
Ajanta Caves - About 107 kms. from the city of Aurangabad, the rock-cut caves of Ajanta nestle in a panoramic gorge, in the form of a gigantic horseshoe.
Ajanta and Ellora - getting there - A blog about the ancient cave-temples of Ajanta and Ellora, a few hundred kilometres
north of Pune.
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A Splendor of Caves - A party of British officers, in 1819 had stumbled upon a site lost for centuries -- a series of 30 caves cut into the hills by Buddhist monks.
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