OVERNIGHT TRAIN TO JAILGON AND THE AJUNTA CAVES

Our first experience of an overnight train trip was from Mumbai to Jailgon. We paid about $5 each for an overnight train journey and a bed in a 2nd class sleeper. What a way to experience Indian train travel. I hate to think what the conditions were like in the area without sleepers.

Jailgon was a much more sedate town, after the chaos of Mumbai. We took a bus trip to the Ajunta caves and were amazed by the work the Buddhist monks had done over hundreds of years in carving these temples out of the face of a long rock cliff. Beautiful, intricate carving.