Elephanta Islands Mumbai Guide Book 

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Elephanta Islands Mumbai Guide Book

Architectuur, Kunst, Lokale geschiedenis, Toerisme

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Elephanta Island (also called Gharapuri Island or place of caves or Pory Island[1]) is one of a number of islands in Mumbai Harbour, east of Mumbai, India. This island is a popular tourist destination because of the island's cave temples, the Elephanta Caves, that have been carved out of rock. The island is easily accessible by ferry from Mumbai, being about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the south east coast of the island city. Boats leave daily from the Gateway of India, taking about an hour each way. The tickets for these can be bought at the Gateway itself. The first ferry leaves at 9 am, the last at 2 pm. From the boat landing stage on the island, a walkway leads to steps that go up to the famous caves. There is also a narrow-gauge toy train from the boat area on the dock to the base of the steps leading up to the caves (about 600 meters). Along the path, hawkers sell souvenirs like necklaces, anklets, showpieces and keychains. There are also stalls to buy food and drinks. Small monkeys play along the sides of the path, occasionally thieving items from the hawkers, trashcans and tourists. History Known in ancient times as Gharapuri, Later the name Elephanta, was given by 17th century Portuguese explorers, after seeing a monolithic basalt sculpture of an elephant found here near the entrance. They decided to take it home but ended up dropping it into the sea because their chains were not strong enough. Later, this sculpture was moved to the Victoria and Albert Museum (now Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum) in Mumbai, by the British.[2]This island was once the capital of a powerful local kingdom. In Manuscript F by Leonardo da Vinci (kept at the Library de France) there is a note in which he says 'Map of Elephanta in India which Antonello the heberdasher has.' We don't know who this florentine travelle Antonello might have been. Het eiland Elephanta (of Gharapuri eiland ) is een van de vele eilanden in de baai van Bombay . Het ligt 10 km van de oevers van de stad en staat bekend om zijn tempels uitgehouwen in de rotsen. Het draagt ​​de naam Elephanta want het eerste wat ze zag de Portugese ontdekkingsreizigers die het ontdekte xvii e eeuw was een olifant uitgehouwen uit de rots beeldhouwkunst. De oppervlakte van het eiland is 4 km 2 . Er zijn drie dorpen op het eiland: Shentbandar, Morabandar en Rajbandar. Rajbandar is de belangrijkste daarvan.