Travel Contest - Have You Been Here (Mahakali Caves , Andheri,Mumbai, India)

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_{Pictures click by using my mobile camera and edited in my mobile gallery}

Hello friends,

How are you all? I know you all are excited after seeing the cover picture of the post. Before starting to write about place I will like to inform you all I set 10% share to @worldsmile as per the contest rule.

_{Front view of caves}

On last Saturday I visited the world heritage site situated in Mumbai city. It has two names Mahakali caves and Kondivite caves. This caves were built in 6th century by Buddhist monks. It is built by cutting 19 rocks and total 9 caves are there. Sadly it is ignored by tourist and local peoples. Government of India doing great job as they maintain this caves and keep this place very clean. Also they well connected this caves with bus service from Andheri east railway station. You will only have to spent 5 rupees to reached the caves from Andheri railway station. 5 rupees are equaling to 0.10 US dollars. Let me explain all the things one by one.

_{Front view of caves}

How to reach Mahakali (Kondivite) caves ?

As I mentioned From Andheri Railway Station from every 5 minutes bus were scheduled for Mahakali caves. To reach Andheri from outside of India. You will have option of Air transport as in Andheri both domestic and International Airport. If you live in India than you will reach here by using public road transport or any train from all over India. Also you will have option of domestic flights.

As I previously mentioned from Andheri Railway Station it only cost Rupees 5 to visit such historic site. 5 rupees is equal to 0.10 US dollars and this is very cheap cost to visit any historic place.

Entry fees for Mahakali (Kondivite) caves ?

To visit the caves you have to fill a online from of Indian Archeological Department and have to paid Rupees 40 per person which is equal to 0.50 dollars.

Information of the place

As I earlier said it is less crowded place and ignored by most of the tourist. As anyone who visits the Mumbai firstly goes to the Gateway of India and Marine drive. But anyone who wants to explored real Mumbai and its history those are comes to the visit this caves. In last post I visited the Kanheri caves borivali. From those cave one secret tunnel comes in this caves as this are part of those caves.

Its a dream place for anyone who loves the history and I like to explore historical places a lot. I always checking each and every detailing of the places and imagine how they were did in 6th century without any advanced technology like today we have.

_{I am thinking how they carved this beautiful carving}

_Carvings

As you saw in the above picture all carvings were carved out in very detailed way but those are made from sandstone which results that this all carvings were vanished over the period of time.

_{5 head snakes carved outside of caves door}

As you saw in above pictures in the inside of caves there is sitting arrangement and earlier there is buddha statute inside the caves but those statue were move to the museum. It is the place which gives the inner peace and as it is less crowded place you will able to spend as much as time you want to explore. It is open between 9 AM to 6 PM so whenever you want to visit this caves will plan accordingly.

_{Panaromic view}

My experience

Actually I visited lot of historical site but this site is so clean and everything is perfectly maintain. There is security guard who always watches you and protect this precious site also other staffs are so friendly. It is must visit heritage site. It is only 9 caves but it takes my 3 hours time. Some people complete all the caves within 15 minutes but I always have hobbit of watching and analyzing the every details and carvings. Even I am reading the every history behind that place also reading the instructions written on the site. By this way I enjoyed the exploration and also one of my cute friend is with me every time.

_{Me and my cute friend}