IN AURANGABAD

Our rikshaw was just great... If I lived in Aurangabad I would always call him!!! because he was just such a caracter, really tall, all dressed in white, a pacient, helpful and smilling guy. He could be a perfect rikshaw driver for any film, but he was real.
We arrived to the Ellora caves after one hour of breeze journey... we did not expect to see anything so amaizingly beautiful.
Is it architecture?, sculpture? I think this is more than that. Only believing and full of faith is that human can create so malvelous spaces.

A boy, playing th flute, inspired Risky beauty... dreams of architects, All carved, all extracted,
meditations in this budist temple. engineers and all dreamers. nothing added, unbelievable.

Aurangabad's original name was 'Khidki' or window. The Dhwajasthambha Kailash Temple (cave No. 16), with its symmetric composition, faced the valley with a huge long window... a tribute to nature and a reminder to the architect.

For this temple 3,000,000 cubic feet of rock had to be quarred, designed and sculpted.

For good reasons is this one of the most famous monuments in India.

I was feeling that I was not happy enought to be there, that I was not taking the enought time and energy to absorve and observe its details, its monumentality and splendour. I want to go back!


Ejem, ejem... diverse religions in the world, different gods, various tabues and contradictions.
Imagin a Catholic church with such a sculpture...
It will never happen, I guess...