Aurangabad

So onto Aurangabad, a small piece of crap town east of Mumbai (8hrs east, everything is a 7 or 8 hour journey away, minimum). It's just a base for the Ajanta and Ellora caves which we visited and they're awesome!!! Massive temples and residences carved out of the bare rockfaces, that took hundreds of years to complete, incredible!! (not natural caves!). Also saw a hilltop fort that was carved into the hill with a moat encircling the entire hill dug out of the rock (I'm talking 100 feet by 40 feet dug out of solid rock, the whole way around a hill 300 feet high by 1/2 a mile diameter....). Met some other travellers from France, Holland, Israel and Canada who were very nice, good to hear about other peoples experiences too. India is so random sometimes which is partly why I love it so much, in the centre of Aurangabad we spotted a bronze 10 foot high brontosaurus carving??? When we were in the train station two guys (with practicaly no english) started chatting to me, which drew a crowd of onlookers numbering about 10, the same thing happened to Derek and the next thing we're having our photos taken in the middle of a crowd of around 25 strangers with our arms around various people, surreal!!! And once when we were coming home after spending the last few rupees in our pockets some guy asked us if we wanted to see his shop, so we said sorry we hadn't any money on us, to which he replied in a very concerned manner "do you need to borrow some???"
That's India, it's great! :-)