Well, I am about a week late to post this exact post, as I returned from a very busy and jam-packed weekend from Aurangabad last Monday, but the post is exactly worth the wait as the place I went to was so incredibly amazing that if I had any doubts that I was stupid for coming to India this semester (which I actually have no doubts) it confirmed that I was in the exact place I am supposed to be in. Aurangabad is a incredibly seedy, smelly, dusty, foul-tasting place, but the reason that anyone goes to Aurangabad is never for that town. It is for these caves, the Ellora and Ajanta caves, that makes it worth it. They are carved out of cliffs and valleys to make these just awestruck temples and you kinda can't help but leave with you mouth open (that was not meant to be a dirty joke, so take your mind out of there.) I'll start you with Ajanta, which I saw directly after we arrived in Aurangabad, and then I will work you over to Ellora in the next post.
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| Ajanta is carved out of a valley. |
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| It honestly felt like I was coming into an Indiana Jones setting. |
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| I loved these dudes holding up the pillars. |
~The Finn
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