Guna Cave is the cave formed between the two Pillar Rocks in Kodaikanal. Due to this fact, from outside, when fog passes the cave, rises and comes out of the chimney-like opening, it appears as though a devil is cooking. For this mere reason, it was originally called as the Devil's Kitchen. Sin... |
Edakkal caves are situated on the Ambukuthi Mountains at a distance of about 16 km from Sultan Bathery. Located at an altitude of 1000 m above sea level, is a set of three caves, considered to be one amongst the earliest sites of human settlement on the face of the planet. Each of these caves has n... |
The Badami Cave Temples is an example of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami Chalukya Architecture. Badami, the capital of the Early Chalukyas, who ruled much of Karnataka in the 6th to 8th centuries, lies at the mouth of a ravine with rocky hills on either side and a town tank in which ... |
Chompon Cave has a nice area with a large opening and two smaller cave openings that allow light to pass through into its innermost sanctum. In the area of Khao Chong Phran, a beautiful cave named “Tham Phra Non” is situated with more than 100 Buddha images and a massive reclining Buddha image w... |
The Trümmelbach Falls plunge down in five mighty cascades through the gorge carved out by the Trümmelbach. The Trummelbach Falls in Switzerland are a series of ten glacier-waterfalls inside the mountain made accessible by tunnel-lift and illuminated. The Trummelbach falls are extraordinary, even i... |
The Mustang region of West Nepal is filled with hundreds if not thousands of caves cut into the mountainsides and cliffs. They have been used as homes, storage facilities, burial sites, refuge from invasion, and retreat dwellings for Bon and Buddhist practitioners. The age of some of the caves date ... |
This cave is just a cave in the cliffs below the Lindos Acropolis in Greece, overlooking St. Paul's Bay. Now it is famously called "The Guns of Navarone Cave", since this is where the movie was filmed.... |
Reechgarh in Pachmarhi is really a cave inside a cave. A natural rock formation in the form of a hollow square. It is a cave opening on three sides, tigers and bears would come here for rest at night. The inner pit is shaped like a rock bowl. To visit this place permission from the Forest Department... |
Udayagiri and Khandagiri caves are rock-cut Jain caves excavated in two adjacent hills that rise abruptly from vast expanse of barren land. Both the hills stand separated only by a narrow road. Udayagiri hill which is 135 feet tall was earlier called Kumari Parvata whereas 118 feet high. To keep the... |
With their lack of sanitation and high infant mortality the dwellings in the Sassi became a source of national shame, especially after Carlo Levi wrote about them in Christ Stopped at Eboli, a denunciation of the poverty and misery he had found in pre-war southern Italy. Come the 1950s, the Materaí... |
Built on a hillside with more than 80 meditation caves, Drak Yerpa is described as the "life tree" or spiritual axis of Lhasa. It used to house 300 monks. The site had a powerful spiritual heritage. Before the Cultural Revolution is was the home of several hundred hermits, monks, and nuns... |
