delhi - jalgaon - ajanta - aurangabad - ellora

was time to say goodbye to sylvia, was really nice to stay with you in ladakh, thank you very much!! so i took a train from delhi to jalgaon, a sleeper train, was quiet good, but noise all the time, craying children, and some discussion about the seat number. jalgaon is the main junction from the train coming from delhi, colcatta or mumbai. i was staying there in a really nice hotel, and the manager was a friendly helpfully man. then the next day i live for the ajanta caves. there was more then 20 caves, all are buddhist caves. there have some statue inside and lots of painting. the painting and the statue are some in a good shape, some are broken, or the painting falls down the wall. so sometime you will see only some pieces of the paintings. but the caves are really old, some 500 ad old(500 years before jesus). was really intresting to see this, full of details, and we was looking around for more then 4 hours (a boy from holland joins me). the paintings and the statue tells you a story about buddha when he was on this earth. in every cave the guard tells you do the pictures not with flash, and after the 10th cave i was thinking now i knew it. but still on the last cave i understod why there tell every one again and again. i indian took a pictures with flash, and the flash will destroy the paintings, so the guard was shout at him and then was a big discussion about this. and also it's not allowed touch the statue, but the indians must touch everything, its bad for the life for this caves, there will destroy faster then shut be.

after visit the caves, i was traveling with the bus down to aurangabad. a nice city, with some trees and parks and looks very clean, not normal for a indian city. so i found a nice hotel a little bit outside. i rest a little bit and then the next day i was going to the ellora caves. there is three section, one is hindu, one is buddhist and finally the have some jain caves. i start with the importance cave, the kailash temple, a hindu cave, to show the god of kailashanta. in early days the temple was covered with white colour, to show the mount kailash, based in tibet (or china whatever). this mountain is for both, hindus and buddhist a very important place. i hope sometime i cane also visit the kailash. the temple was full with statue outside and inside, there was no paintings. i spend there more then one hour. to long, was so hot, and still i shut see more then 20 caves. after i saw all buddhist cave i give almost up, now i was more then 3 hours walking to see the caves, took a lot of pictures, and i was tired and thirsty. but i was thinking i want see also the jain caves. so i but myself together and walk to the 1km farest jain caves. was also intresting, something between hindu and buddhist caves. this caves in ellora not that old then the caves in ajanta, but the there are not in a good shape, and of course every indian touch and climbing the statue, and inside the caves stinks like hell, there are many bat inside and you will walk on a carpet of shit. so for me was the ajanta cave much more nice.

back to the hotel some christians have a meeting there, there speak about jesus and the bible. its nice i think, but make me sick when there start to talk with you and tell you shut believe in jesus, and start to force you to read the bible. and today in the morning i saw the pastor, i wished him a good day, and he asked me how are you? i told him, fine. i asked him also, and he says very fine, because im beliving in jesus and god help me......

see you soon, im going now to goa, where i dont know. where the bus will drop me, there i start explore the state.