My Favorite Place
Whenever I was 12 years old, I went on vacation to India with my mum and dad. Out of all the places, my favorite place had to be the Ajanta and Ellora Cave System which is located in the district of Maharashtra, India. The Ajanta Caves contain 30 separate Buddhist monuments and has a whole division of tunnels and rooms. Ever since 1983, the Ajanta Caves became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although it is a smaller cave system, the beauty of it is just remarkable.
The Ajanta Caves (Source: TutorialsPoint)
One of the Ajanta Caves (Source: Thearyavarthexpress)
The outside view of the Ajanta Caves (Source: Wikipedia)
Also part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Ellora Caves is a cave system of more than 100 caves. However, only 34 of them are open to the public. 12 caves contain Buddhist art/monuments, 17 caves stem from the Hindu people, and 5 caves come from the Jain religion. This is considered to be one of the largest rock-cut temple monasteries cave system in the world. If you love nature and historic places, these cave systems are the places to go.
Ellora Caves (Source: AstroVed)
The Kailasa of Ellora (Photo by Jean Pierre Dalbéra)
The Temple of Vishvakarma; Cave 10 (Photo by Brad Pict/Fotolia)
OH MY GOSH, you have actually been to the Ajanta and Ellora Caves........ I am so jealous, Krishna! Maybe you will do a project for class inspired by that amazing place. I was just going ooooh and ahhhhh looking at the pictures you chose to include here. We even have an ACK comic book about the caves in Bizzell: Ellora Caves: The Glory Of The Rashtrakootas ... it is really exciting to have someone in class who has actually been there! Wow!
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