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Day 9: Ajanta and Ellora Caves

Ajanta and Ellora are eas­ily among the top five sites for any­body who likes mon­u­ments, Hin­duism or Bud­dhism, or any com­bi­na­tion of those. In terms of mon­u­ments, I’d say that per­son­ally, these sites were more inter­est­ing than many ancient mon­u­ments in Europe—they are cer­tainly bet­ter pre­served for being the same age. Ajanta is older, the