You can venture out to see the massive, imperial Daulatabad Fort.

Alternately drive some 100 km to see the amazing Ajanta caves; how a groups/generations of monks persevered in the darkness to create fabulous art is a cause of huge wonderment.

Or hop across to view the poor man's Taj Mahal built by Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb from plaster due to a paucity of funds.

Probably the most interesting site of this area in central India is the rock-cut caves of Ellora, 35 km out of Aurangabad. That's not to take away from the magnificence of the paintings and sculpture of Ajanta; which are stunning but rather hard to view for reasons of geography, light and more.

Yet when you stand in front of the enormous Kailasa temple hewn delicately and beautifully, with such detail, out of a giant, formless rock in the caves, on a hillside, thousands of years ago you are bowled over.

Man, for once, has created something truly remarkable.

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