Aurangabad Stories


Getting followed by papparazzi at Ellora.

After a long bus journey (trains are much cheaper and more comfortable but they seem to be getting harder to book lately) to Ahmedabad, I took an even longer bus overnight to Aurangabad. This city has nothing really going for it except that its near both Ajanta and Ellora caves - two World Heritage Sites. For some reason though, the city is lacking in...


Aurangabad

Our reason for staying in Aurangabad was solely to use it as a base for visiting the Ellora and Ajanta caves. Aurangabad is a busy, dusty town with a very rural feel to it. After being there for three night we were definitely ready to move on to our next destination. On a positive note we did meet some very nice people like Abdullah our driver who to...


Ajanta Caves

Namaste Everyone, Zoe and I arrived in the city of Auranagabd last night. In comparison to many of the cities we have visited Auranagabd is a smaller city only 1.3 million people. Auranagabad is located in the interior of India and near mountains, within some of these mountains are numerous caves with temples and monastaries carved into them. Today w...


Agra, Bhopa, Manmad, & Aurangabad

Well! A lot has happened since i wrote the last time in this diary! We have been to Agra & seen the Taj Mahal, baby taj, the red fort and we also seen some dobi wallah's at work. these are the people who wach all the clothes from the hotels etc. The people who do this are really poor and they were standing washing in a river. Our guide (a guy in ...