Borra Caves

We drove to the million-year-old Borra Caves, which are a 3-hour drive from Visakhapatnam on June 28, 2005. These are limestone caves, carved out by the Gosthani river (now much reduced in volume) and were discovered by the locals when a cow fell through a hole and floated out into the river unharmed. The caves are estimated to be a million years old.


Stop at Tyda, enroute to Borra Caves


Enroute to Borra Caves

View of the Gosthani river just outside the Borra Caves


The hole through which a cow fell, leading to the discovery of the caves


Some of the stalactite and stalagmite formations in the caves, which are a million years old. My photos did not do justice to the caves, unfortunately.


Sridhar and I crawling through a tunnel in the caves.