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We arrived in Aurangabad at 6am, stinky and smelly since we had slept all night in the train. However, as we dismounted from the train we realised it didn't matter how bad we smelt, because this city smelt even worse. Take 1 tonne of rotten vegetables, smush it together we a few million decaying fish and then set the whole thing on fire and you kind of start to get the smell of Aurangabad. This city should really be called A-rank-a-bad.<br/><br/>
Trying not to breathe in Aurangabad
K.thambi2006-01-06 14:26:13
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We arrived in Aurangabad at 6am, stinky and smelly since we had slept all night in the train. However, as we dismounted from the train we realised it didn't matter how bad we smelt, because this city smelt even worse. Take 1 tonne of rotten vegetables, smush it together we a few million decaying fish and then set the whole thing on fire and you kind of start to get the smell of Aurangabad. This city should really be called A-rank-a-bad.
The main reason we were in Aurangabad was to see the famous Ellora temple caves. This consisted of 34 temples that were literally hewn out of the side of a mountain. And they weren't small. The biggest was in fact as large as a 10 story building and probably just as deep. These were temple complexes - multistory buildings essentially with rooms and doorways. Every room had intricate carvings and statues all along the wall. Even the roof tops were meticulously carved. It looked like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. You could just imagine Indy or Lara Croft exploring these temples and accidentally unearthing a secret passage by leaning on the left ear of a statue.
Additionally we visited
Daulatab Fortress, which was a hilltop Fortress near Ellora caves. This was also spectacular though not as impressive as Golconda Fort in Hyderabad. Perhaps the best thing was the fact that it was completely isolated, in the middle of nowhere. There is just something about sitting amongst ruins - the tranquilty is amazing - we could have sat there forever (except that at was so hot that we probably would have been burnt to a cinder).
That night we hopped on a plane back to Mumbai. This was to be just an overnight stop on the way to our next destination - Udaipur in Rajasthan.
See photographs from:
India Gallery
