Aurangabad, Yeola 22/1/2009 to 26/1/2009

Places visited: Aurangabad, Ajintha, Verul, Yeola.

Date: 29/11/2008

Purpose: Picnic.

Persons: Harshal, Juilee

22/1/2009

In the morning of 22/1/2009, Mi and Juilee got ready for Aurangabad. Suddenly I saw Baba is also ready. He first told us that he is also coming with us, so we got surprised. But later he told that he is going to Ranjangav Ganpati.

We started from Pune in car at 8:30 AM, from BundGarden, we took NagarRoad. After 30 Kms, I dropped baba at Ranjangav. ( Later he took S.T. bus back to Pune on the same noon. )

Around 10:30 AM, we reached at Kamat Hotel just before Nagar. We had very good idli sambar and SouthIndian Coffee.

The road was very good 3 lane highway. At some places road work was going on, so I drove carefully as the road became signle lane suddenly. I touched speed 110 at one time.

Then after nagar, there were couple of small Ghats which were having very good road ( as Nagar is an international airport. )

Before 50 Kms from Aurangabad, I halted to relax for half an hour. And at 2:00 PM, we reached at aurangabad. As I already took detailed maps till Attya's home ( samarthanagar ), we reached within 5 minutes at home. Juilee's aai baba also came there by train.

At home Mukta Attya served hot tea and then we had heavy lunch and slept sound in the noon.

In the evening, we went to Jayu Tai's ( Mukta Attya's daughter ) home to meet her family. There she served Shira ani Chivda, which filled the tummy very well. So after coming back home, we decalred of not having dinner. But still Vishwas kaka bought Samosa and Sutarfeni....... Oooouuubbbaaaaaa.

23/1/2009

Morning 8:30, we started for Ajintha. At around 11:15, we reached Ajintha bus stop from where we took the bus upto the base of the caves. We strated from the steps which lead us to the first cave. We watched that cave but could not understand anything. So Juilee suggested to hire a tour guide ( which resulted to be very useful. ). We hired a guide. ( He knew JohnDeere! ). He showed us many good paitings and explained the significance. He showed us a bull painting on the roof. From whereever you see that bull, you feel that he is looking at you or following you! He also showed us a painting of Harin which has 4 harin but only 1 head. There are 15 complete caves and 15 half-built caves. We really got exhausted by seeing this huge structure. The paintings ( Year 200 B.C. ) have many things which we are using right now, like socks, pagdi, mini-skirt, curly hairs, night-gown, french-beared, water-boat, etc. In one cave, there are four pillers which make sound of Nagara, Tabla, etc.
At 3:00 PM, we reached down, took the bus back to the parking. While returning back we took lunch at Sai Dhaba. Khatevaar lunch ghetla. First we ordered two Thali. But by seeing the size of the thali, we returned one.

24/1/2009

( Sakali mazya nakatun rakta ala hota, te mi nantar sangitla Juilee la. )

Morning 9:30 AM, we started from home and reached the field of Mr. Sunil Joshi. There Pundalik showed us the farm and we enjoyed it a lot. From there we went to Bhadra-Maruti temple, but is is too much crowded, so we went to Ghrishneshwar, but is is also crowded. So me and Juilee went to Verul and her mother and father standed in the queue of the temple. At Verul, we hired a Rikshaw which took us to all the caves. The caves were having huge structures carved from one rock only. At last we went to Kailas Lene, which is too huge to imagine. Ramayan-Yuddha korlay aatmadhye. Ani ek motthi pind pan ahe shankarachi.

The we started in indica to Daulatabad ( Meanwhile Juilee's mother and father, after Ghrishneshwar, took a different cab and went home. ). We reached at 4:30 to Daulatabad. There we climed only half-way and came down at 5:00 PM as we wanted to also visit Bibi-Ka-Maqbara ( Our Khotarda Driver told us that it will be closed at 5:30 ). The driver then took us directly to home, but we forced him to go to the Bibi-Ka-Maqbara ( which we found will be open till 10:00 PM ). We took some photos over there and came back. ( Panchakki was closed. )

At home, I played harmonium and Juilee and Attya sung songs.

25/1/2009

We started at 8:30 AM from Aurangabad without Anghol, and reached Yeola at 12:00 PM. The banglow of Geeta Attya is in Bajarpeth ( near Kapse Paithani Dukan ). In the evening, we went to buy the Paithani from Kapse Dukan. I bought 1 for Juilee and 1 for Aai. At night, I played harmonium and Geeta Attya her sunbai, Juilee and her aai sung songs. Vedant Geeta Attya's natu barobar changli maitri zali.

26/1/2009

We started at 10:30 and at Sangamner... tithe sangamner la davikade "Pune" fata ahe, tya-aiwaji ujvikade thoda pudhe gela ki "Joshi Place" mhanun changla hotel ahe, tithe jevlo. Then we reached to Pune at 5:30 PM.

Expenses:

Kamat Breakfast = Rs. 91

Toll = Approx. ( 21 + 18 + 18 ) Rs. 57

Ajintha Indica = Rs. 1100

Verul Indica = Rs. 800

Ajintha Amenity charges = Rs. 7 ( x 2 ) = Rs. 14

Ajintha bus = Rs. 7 ( x 4 ) = Rs. 28

Ajintha ticket = Rs. 5 ( x 2 ) = Rs. 10

Ajintha Guide = Rs. 300

Verul Ticket = Rs. 5 ( x 2 ) = Rs. 10

Verul Rikshaw = Rs. 130

2 Paithani = Rs. 8860