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Located within the forests of Sanjay Gandhi National Park at Borivali in Mumbai, Kanheri Caves are among the earliest cave temples in India along with Karla and Ajanta Caves. Chiseled out of ...
Kanheri Caves are located amidst the lush greenery of Mumbai's Sanjay Gandhi National Park. | Photo: Twitter @nupur_uk Travel and discovery are two peas in a pod, and if you are a history buff who ...
After the Shilonda Trail some time back, we felt brave enough to take on the trek to Kanheri Caves. A like-minded mother decides to host her son’s birthday party with a trek and I find myself ...
Far less well-known is Kanheri, at least to people beyond the Indian state of Maharashtra. Kanheri is a collection of 125 Buddhist cave monasteries cut out of the living rock between the 1st century ...
Hidden in the cliffs here are the unique, enchanting Kanheri Caves that offer a commanding view of the region nestling between Mumbai harbour and Bassein Creek. The word ‘ kanheri' perhaps ...
They are believed to have been constructed before the Kanheri Caves nearby and probably served as a monsoon shelter for the monks. While a formal approval from the Archaeological Survey of India ...
"The newly discovered caves may have been older than the Kanheri Caves as they were simpler in form and they lacked water cisterns, which are found in the more evolved architecture of Kanheri ...
IMAGE: Next we have Pramod Patil's pic of Kanheri caves in Karjat, Maharashtra. IMAGE: The Raigad fort in Maharashtra by Pramod Patil. IMAGE: Kshitija Inamdar captured the sunset from Guhagar ...