We had lunch at some Woodlands,we were mistook by the name,thought would get some south-indian delicacies :(
It had North Indian thalis and we had to choose among them.The food was good but the rice was too less which we didn't expect,but the ambience was too good!
We then retired to Shirdi for night halt that day!We had our dinner at Arya vysya Chatram which provides free meals to people from the community,and yes the food tasted great at the end of a tiring day!
The next day(7.8.2008) we started early morning to reach Aurangabad,as we had only one day to cover the places there.We had to cover Ajanta and Ellora caves and some local sight seeing inside the city and one Anjaneyar temple where the deity is lying down,there is no other place where you can see this form of the Lord Hanuman.
We had to leave off Ajanta caves from our itinary as we'd only little time left.We reached Ellora Caves around 10:30a.m. and the architecture is really unbelievable.They are rock-cut temples,the architect starts working from the top of the rock and completes his work down.The rocks are called the monolithic rocks!You can read more about this world heritage site here.
We had our lunch in a near-by Andhra Dhaba,the food was just sooperb and we relished it as we got have rice dishes after two days :)
Then went to the Mini-Taj in Aurangabad,it was built by Aurangazeb's son in remembrance of his mother!It is called the "Bibi ka Maqbara".Some re-construction works were going on in the site!
We also saw the Daulatabad fort.We also visited the Panchakki,the water mill to grind the wheat flour used in ancient days!
Then at the end we retired in a lodge for night halt and then took the early morning train to Hyderabad.We reached there by 2:30 p.m,we'd about 4hrs left to board our connecting train to Chennai.But it was raining heavily and all my plans for shopping in Hyderabad was washed away in rains.We were seated in the waiting hall till we got into our train.The next day morning we reached Chennai about 3hrs late.It seemed that the rains followed us in our journey and there was no rains in Chennai,it was as usual hot and we missed the rains now!
