Ajanta Caves and Ellora Caves | All About Ajanta Caves : Timing, Fees,How To Reach Ajanta Caves

There is one cave in Ajanta where you can see sleeping statue of Buddha, Mystery is that when we measure length Buddha statue from head to feet and when we measure it from feet to head it shows different numbers

Ajanta Caves, Hotels in the -Aurangabad,near Ajanta and Ellora infomration availbe on this blog on Dec 2012

Lonar creator lake is 122 km from aurangabad in Buldhana District Maharashtra. It has history that dates back more than 50000 years when Astroide had hit earth,I went here by bike from Aurangabad nice experince for me you can also see three historic temples here

India Aurangabad city is like central place to visit Ajanta & Ellora,Also there are lots of Historic place near aurangabad like,Dualatabad Fort about 30 mins by bus,Pan(Water) chakki in aurangabad city,khrushneshwar Jyotirling(Hindus lord shiva temple) near ellora cave,Bivika mukbara(Copy of Tajmahal) in Aurangabad.Paithan Dam near Auranabad

AJANTA is world's greatest historical monument recognised by UNESCO far near from Jalgaon city of Maharashtra, India. There are 30 caves in Ajanta of which 9, 10, 19, 26 and 29 are chaitya-grihas and the rest are monasteries. These caves were discovered in AD 1819 and were built up in the earlier 2nd century BC-AD. Most of the paintings in Ajanta are right from 2nd century BC-AD and some of them about the fifth century AD and continued for the next two centuries. All paintings shows heavy religious influence and centre around Buddha, Bodhisattvas, incidents from the life of Buddha and the Jatakas. The paintings are executed on a ground of mud-plaster in the tempera technique