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December 29, 2005
Ajanta Caves
On the 28th of December we flew to Aurangabad which was the jumping point for visisting Ajanta and Ellora cave temples.
The Ajanta caves were carved out of a hillside from 200 to 700 C.E. and many were very beautifully painted. Some caves were designed as temples for Buddhist worship and others had cells for the monks to live in. These caves were abandoned for the later Ellora caves and rediscovered in about the 1850's.
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Posted by Shirley at December 29, 2005 08:00 PM