Ajanta Caves - 200 BC - Aurangabad, India (ajanta cave map numbered, bc india map)

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to Aurangabad, India by TravelPod blogger Thomasgillam. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Ajanta Caves – 200 BC “200 years before the birth of Christ, a group of Buddhist monks began chipping away at the Basalt ledge above a river named Tiger, in the hills in central India. 1000 years later, after 50 generations, they stopped. What they left behind has become a UNESCO World Heritage site named the Ajanta Caves. We had flown from Delhi to Aurangabad to view these caves. As soon as we left the plane we hired a car to drive the 100 Km to a small town called Fardapur. Hotel choices here were limited. We managed, after some searching to locate a decent one for around $15 US. The first night we drove out of town to an overlook to view the caves location form high on a ridge above the site. The drive out was fun. We had hired a Hindustan Motors 1995 Ambassador to carry us out through the fields of lentil, corn, and sugar cane. Once we arrived at the viewpoint, we were afforded a panoramic view of the site. The caves were carved into a basalt ridge along a broad curve in the Wahore (Tiger) River. I shot a few shots from above , then took a few of the sunset in the mountains of Maharashtra State After Buddhism lost its influence in India, the sites were lost for hundreds of years. Lost, that is, until a British Officer, named John Smith, while on a tiger hunt, in 1918 was shown them by a local villager. He brought …