AM was wowed by the fact that there are a set of caves right in the middle of Mumbai city and is not encroached. We has been there few backs to know that the entry is closed beyond 5 pm. But we took our lazy bums and reached at 5 30 pm. Bad luck. This new year first thing we wanted to do is to reach places on time and research a bit about them too.
First thing we saw that amused me was a pound of dogs chasing a poor little hen. The smarty pants hen flew and perched on to a small ledge on a steep downward slope. Hence the doggies were not able to reach it.
One was very happy that I clicked their pics.
We were about to leave then AM realized there were supposed to be few caves in the NE. So we did go back try to find it out in the path laid. But few guys were using the path beyond the caves as make shift pee zone. I had to come back. At the entrance we enquired about other caves, we were told that there is another gate. We went out to search to know that the information was wrong.
But knowing Mumbai, the place where the caves end were converted into garage and cow shed. We took a short cut through it to get to the NE caves. The steps carved in the 7th century still helped us as much as those monks to get to the caves. These caves were not any different from the SE caves just that it gave us a sense of achievement that we actually took efforts to search for the entrance.
The caves seemed to be homes of these Buddhist monks but it definitely has an hierarchy in them. few like servant quarters and few are posh 3bhk, as I can put in recent terms. After going through the 5 caves in SE, we started climbing the rock to get above the caves. Ofcourse we didnt follow the path like these crazy kids.
We were about to leave then AM realized there were supposed to be few caves in the NE. So we did go back try to find it out in the path laid. But few guys were using the path beyond the caves as make shift pee zone. I had to come back. At the entrance we enquired about other caves, we were told that there is another gate. We went out to search to know that the information was wrong.
But knowing Mumbai, the place where the caves end were converted into garage and cow shed. We took a short cut through it to get to the NE caves. The steps carved in the 7th century still helped us as much as those monks to get to the caves. These caves were not any different from the SE caves just that it gave us a sense of achievement that we actually took efforts to search for the entrance.
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