Continuing Path of Travel Within India

From Agra, we traveled to Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan. It wasn't at all what I thought it would be like. I think that other famously-known cities such as Jodhpur and Udaipur would have been more like what I had pictured.

From Jaipur we had to return to Mumbai in order to catch a train back out in the evening to Aurangabad, the city that we had planned to use as base to do day trips for visits to Ellora and Ajanta - both famous rock-hewn Buddhist cave sites (Ellora also has Hindu and Jain carvings). We were both very excited about seeing the caves but really dreading having to come back to Mumbai - even if it was for the day.

After the caves/Aurangabad, we were to come back to Mumbai to spend the night (joy joy) before leaving for Cairo on the 30th.

However, things have changed. More on that in later posts...