{"id":7679,"date":"2025-02-11T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:14:21","slug":"ajanta-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalwanderings.co.uk\/new\/2025\/02\/11\/ajanta-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajanta Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for takeoff India 2025, Maharashtra Tour. First stop The World Heritage site, Ajanta caves. But how to get there? Well a few firsts first. First time I’d been to Munich (admittedly just the airport), then first time on the huge Airbus double decker, A380<\/a> and first time Premium Economy (even though I’d flown Business class a few times!).<\/p>\n

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So I arrived in New Delhi at 1am, a few hours kip before the last legs, a 4am flight to Aurangabad followed by a two hour taxi ride deep into the Indian countryside to the middle of no where and my first destination. The Ajanta Caves<\/a> really are in the middle of nowhere and is a good reason why they were only rediscovered in 1819. There is, however a government rest house<\/a> nearby, which I had managed to book, so my plan was to stay there in order to get an early start the following morning. So on the first day, I just wanted to relax and recuperate after my long journey and maybe see a bit of the nearby wildlife, of which there was plenty:<\/p>\n