The Ancient Caves Of India

It seems like it's been a while since I posted up a new update, so this will have to cover a few different places in one.

Dragging ourselves away from the idillic countryside scenery of Mandu we headed off to the ancient buddhist caves of Ajanta and Ellora. These are truely one of the great wonders of India, and indeed the world. Around 30 caves have been carved out of sheer rock faces on both sites, which date from 200 BC to around 1400 AD. The sheer feat of removing that amount of granite (some of the caves are more than 30 x 30m in size) is phenominal, when you add the intricacy of the carving and the tools available at the time the caves are definitely a wonder of the world.

Moving on down through the middle of the country at a rapid place with a quick stopover in Badami to see yet more cave architecture, not to mention the thousands of indian tourists that seem to get everywhere on a Sunday. We literally couldent wait to get out of the place becuase of constant hassle of Indians wanting to take our photo and get our complete family history. Lesson learned..... don't go to any touristy places on Sundays.