louiseinlimbo

I had another organised tour booked in India, to try for something else on my bucket list - seeing a tiger in the wild!!  But before that, I had a spare week - enough time to see the UNESCO-listed Ajanta and Ellora Caves. So I started in Aurangabad, the nearest city to these caves, where my hostel seemed to have no international travellers staying, but plenty of friendly Indians, who persuaded me to join forces with them so that we could pool resources to hire a large taxi for the day rather than wasting time with buses to get to the rather distant Ajanta.  Probably worthwhile, as there are some thirty Buddhist caves excavated around a horseshoe-shaped river gorge, full of wall and ceiling paintings, and statues - we even hired a site guide, who did point out some corners that I would otherwise have missed (and gave us great information on the history ... information which I'm afraid went in one ear and out the other). So I agreed to also spend the next day with a couple of th...