Photos – Aurangabad

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The Ellora caves

Full of bats

And of tourists, pushing and shoving as usual

The biggest “cave” – the Kailasa temple

Any guesses what are these holes for?

Monkeys

There are of course also small, boring caves,

sometimes filled with water.

Some caves need repairs (no big surprise, after almost 1500 years).

Some are unfinished (or stolen – although typically it would be the head missing, not the body)

The Kailasa temple from above – it’s the biggest “statue” in the world (made from one piece of stone)!

Monkeys are everywhere

Usually it’s cows eating the trash on the streets. But sometimes it’s a horse :) I’ve even seen some people riding on horses in the crazy traffic!

A small shop

The Daulatabad fort

with a tall minaret inside

and a few small Hindu temples

Ceiling in one of them

The school trips were really excited to take pictures with me.

The walls you can see are the outer walls of the fort – they are around 5K long!

A friendly keeper of a small shrine at the top of the hill.

Also goats are living inside

Monkeys coming

to eat banana

and observe me.

Lots of cannons inside

A small and friendly mosque in Aurangabad

Unfortunately, I don’t remember whose tomb it is.

After seeing this you realize that in India it unfortunately doesn’t make much difference if you put your trash in a trashcan or just throw on the ground.

Seeing a Bollywood movie is a must in India! Even though it was in Hindi, I had no trouble following the plot. And it was in 3D, making the action scenes even more heroic! But disappointingly, there were only 2 dances.

A hostel for 35 rupees (~75 cents) per night. I wonder how it looks inside.

Bibi qa Maqbara, the “poor man’s Taj”.

Inside

Pigeons are also everywhere.

In the smaller and much less touristy Aurangabad caves.

There are surprisingly many Buddhists in Aurangabad, this is at a temple just below the caves.

And there is quite a lot of green parrots in India!