Ellora Caves
Trip Start
Apr 22, 2011
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Trip End
Jul 08, 2011
What I did
Ellora, Maharashtra, India
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Day 33
I slept 11 hours last night. It was nice to catch up on some sleep. I went downstairs and told them I wanted to store my bags, but they told me I had to pay another day and we negotiated that I'd pay for a ½ day. I was off to Ellora caves in the morning. This was only 30 km away and there were 34 caves there. I was amazed at these caves also. These caves were basically carved with a hammer and chisel and each one had several carvings. Some were like one foot tall and some were 20 feet tall. Each one was different. I saw all 34 caves. Some caves were not so special and were just some open rooms and some were massive. I spent a few minutes at the boring ones and up to an hour at cave 16, which was the only one that was not really a cave because it was just carved out of rock. It took 200 years to build and probably was about half the size of a football field with view points balconies, temples, sitting area and the statues ranged from people fighting to gods and goddesses to elephants. It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen and I met a girl from Seattle in the complex and she said it was the coolest thing she has seen in India in four months of travel. Some of the caves had three floors and each floor had carvings all the way around each floor and toward the end of the caves, there were taller caves with the ceilings approximately 30 feet high. The statues were also tall in there. I guess one of the weird things about these caves was all the statues of females. I guess they took women out of power and the country went to shit? USA is opposite. We gave women the right to vote and now we are 16 trillion in debt. There may actually have been more statues of women than men there and for women reason the women had really big boobs in every statue. I had the normal people come up to me and ask for pictures and that didn't piss me off. I don't talk to anyone trying to sell me things, although many tried. I came back to the hotel and rested for a couple hours before heading to an internet cafe, to dinner and finally to the bus station.
