you would, wouldn't you

the caves at ellora
profound wow
buddhist hindu and jain caves
carved into the basalt
the largest monolithic temple in the world... the most striking one of all, hindu,
something Egyptian about it

we took a tour, MTDC coach and guide,

because its easy and it takes less time

it turned out less painful than the other tours this 12 month

vietnam etc

yet tourism has a lot of the conveyor belt about it

and tours even more so

but we managed to jump ship when we'd had enough

but still

the kind of thing to provoke an existential crisis

...

aurangabad

a bit of a hole really

and the worst food yet

so bad that if it had a mcdonalds i'd probably go there

and on the way up we went to Dalautabad...

a fort carved out of a mountain

the fort is inside and on top of the mountain

the deep moat was carved out of the mountain

and filled with snakes and crocodiles

...and after you've gone in a number of gates,

and got over the moat's lack of leather drawbridge

there's the labyrinth

carved within the rock

never seen anything like it

or not seen, since it was dark

where there's tunnels leading nowhere, leading somewhere,

leading up leading down

leading off a cliff into the crocodiles

where the defenders would pour boiling oil and water down on the attackers

and come out of nowhere

and

...

no-one ever got through

except by bribing the guards

...

you would wouldn't you

you would

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