We will walk you through the different architectural features of the caves, as well as familiarize you with the various Hindu gods and goddesses, and legends associated with them.
The most special features of this experience are : 1. The App opens up new places and new stories for you in the same old cities 2. Each walk is crafted like a masterpiece to offer an immersive experience to the traveller with the correct mix of history, culture, myth, food , through professional narration, with background scores of music, qawalli or sound affects, here and there 3. There is no need for you to depend on a guide - the traveller can take the walk anytime as per will, at his/ her own pace 4. The content is developed by domain experts and curated with utmost care, leaving no room for dependence on the guide's knowhow 5.You pay once for three months and need not pay the guide repeatedly.
Hop On India welcomes you on a detailed exploration of the Hindu cave temples at Ellora dating from the sixth to tenth century AD. Ellora is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of the largest rock-cut cave complexes in the world! We will be exploring the significant Hindu caves from numbers 13 to 29. Some of the caves are empty hollows or abandoned efforts and we won’t visit them. Even then, your tour will take a good part of two hours. We will walk you through the different architectural features of the caves, as well as familiarize you with the various Hindu gods and goddesses, and legends associated with them. We will cover the below mention points in our walk: 1 Just after entry Gate 2 Outside Kailash Cave 16 3 Cave 14 4 Cave 15 Base 5 Cave 15 6 Cave 16 – Outside Entrance of Kailash 7 Gajalakshmi Panel 8 River Goddess Complex 9 Next to Pillar and Elephant 10 Mahabharata Panel 11 Left wall/North corridor 12 Rear wall/East corridor 13 Right wall/South corridor 14 Ravana shaking Mount Kailash 15 Ramayana panel 16 Shiva passage 17 Central shrine 18 Painted Natraj on Window 19 Nandi Enclosure 20 Kailash Entrance 21 Cave 21
You will make your own way to the meeting points
On purchase of the Tour, HopOn India will send you a Promo code. This needs to be entered on the HopOn India App to activate your purchase. Once activated, your purchase is valid for 3 months and can be used multiple times using the same device. How to HopOn? Step1: HopOn India App is a digital audio guide that needs to be downloaded from Appstore and Playstore by users. After download, users must register on the app. Post confirmation and login, the user can select "Aurangabad" city on the home page and navigate to the "Ellora Hindu Caves" tour (In English). Step 2: On selecting the tour, users will be prompted to buy. Just below the 'Buy Now" button, users will find a "Have a Promo code?" button. Users need to enter the Promo code here. Apply the Promo code and tap the price button to activate the tour. The tour will become active and will remain active for 3 months. Step 3: Users can take the tour in the "Navigate" mode that requires the users to be at the starting point "Entrance of Ellora Hindu Caves" to enjoy the tour. In navigate mode, the app will detect the user's location through GPS and narrate the relevant stories - as users walk through our recommended path. Alternatively, users can listen to the tour in "Virtual" mode as well from anywhere. You can even download the tour so that it may work in a poor network or offline mode. Please listen to the introduction audio of the tour on the app. You can go through FAQs on the App in the help menu to know more about the HopOn India experiences.