Why Aurangabad Caves Are Worth Visiting – Even After Ajanta (2026)
“Haven’t I already seen this?” is the reaction I hear more often at Aurangabad Caves than at any other site I guide people through. It…
“Haven’t I already seen this?” is the reaction I hear more often at Aurangabad Caves than at any other site I guide people through. It…
hidden caves of Aurangabad, Aurangabad Caves is already, by any measure, an overlooked site — the entire region’s tourism attention goes to Ajanta and Ellora,…
I generally recommend a guide at every site in this region, and Aurangabad Caves is no exception — but I also recognize that this is…
Aurangabad Caves photography is, in my honest opinion, one of the most underrated opportunities in this entire region — an east-facing hillside with genuinely dramatic…
Aurangabad Caves vs Ellora Caves “Which is better, Aurangabad Caves or Ellora?” is a question I genuinely do not like answering directly, because it assumes…
I get this question constantly from visitors deciding whether Aurangabad Caves is worth their time after already planning Ajanta: “Isn’t it basically the same thing,…
I have spent years explaining the history of Ajanta and Ellora to visitors, and almost every time, when I bring up Aurangabad Caves, I get…
I get more logistics questions about Aurangabad Caves than almost any other site in this region, mostly because it gets so little coverage online compared…
Daulatabad Fort sits 15 km from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), directly on the road to Ellora, and is one of the most underappreciated military engineering achievements…