Bhaja Caves
Second century BCE Buddhist cells with a stupa group outside, cut before the arch was known in India.
- Where
- Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 18.7278, 73.4819
Get the Bhaja Caves stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Bhaja Caves. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Maharashtra volume with your photos and a note.
Near Bhaja Caves
Visapur Fort 1.1 km
The waterfall staircase everyone climbs in July.
Lohagad Fort 2.1 km
The scorpion's tail in the monsoon.
Bedse Caves 5.6 km
A Buddhist chaitya above the Pawna valley, reached by a stair cut in the hillside.
Pavana Lake 5.9 km
The reservoir behind the Pavana dam, twenty five kilometres out of Lonavala.
Karla Caves 6.3 km
A Buddhist prayer hall of the first century BCE with a wooden ribbed ceiling that has survived two thousand years.
Tung Fort 7.8 km
A steep cone of a fort in Pune district, called Kathingad, which means the difficult one.
Lonavala 8.2 km
The Sahyadri gap the old trade route used, green for four months a year and dry brown for the rest.
Tikona Fort 11 km
A triangle above the Pawna backwaters.
More national monuments in Maharashtra
Questions
Where is Bhaja Caves?
Bhaja Caves is in Lonavala, Maharashtra. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Visapur Fort (1.1 km), Lohagad Fort (2.1 km), Bedse Caves (5.6 km).
How do I get the Bhaja Caves stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Bhaja Caves and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Maharashtra volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Bhaja Caves before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Maharashtra volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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