Subject: Post: <p>Today the program consisted of the second site of ancient cave temples, Ajanta Caves. Ajanta is also a world heritage site, so one more off my todo-list. We took a taxi to the site with the same driver as on previous days, wandered there for a couple of hours and returned by the same taxi, the driver waited for us. The caves are about 100 kilometers from the city, and the road being in relatively bad condition, full of holes, the trip took some two hours each direction. According to our driver the road had been just fine two days ago, but the monsoon rain of the last days destroyed the road surface.</p><p>The cave site was actually much larger than we thought. Ellora was said to be much bigger, and it barely took two hours in the monsoon rain to go through all of Ellora's caves. However, in Ajanta two-three hours was just enough to quickly see the caves, but we could have used much more time there. The beautifully decorated caves reminded me a lot of Petra in Jordan and some other comparable ancient cave sites.</p><p>Now in the evening we checked out of our hotel, got our laundry back (finally, clean clothes started to be required), wandered a bit around the city and had a nice dinner in the hotel restauraunt. Night bus to Mumbai awaiting..</p><p>Too bad I did not check what would be approriate clothing before packing and departing home. Now I have two pairs of shorts which are generally considered not suitable for grown up men in India, and only one pair of jeans.. Well, surviving with those, but carrying the shorts for nothing. Also it is worth noting that it obviously took me 34 years and Google to learn how to tie my shoe strings so that they don't open. Obviously always been doing it wrong way, just the second knot has to be made in different direction. :)</p><p></p><p>More pictures of Ajanta coming tomorrow, have to hurry to the bus now. All the previous pictures were also added yesterday.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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