Thursday, April 4, 2013

Borra Caves - I

The Borra Caves, also called Borra Guhalu.  In Telugu language ‘Borra’ means something that has bored into the ground and ‘guhalu’ means caves. Bora Caves are located on the East Coast of India, in the Ananthagiri hills of the Araku valley of the Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh with hill ranges elevation varying from 800 m to 1,300 m.  The Caves, one of the largest in the country, at an elevation of about 705 m, distinctly exhibit a variety of impressive picture ranging from very small to big and irregularly shaped. The Caves are basically Karstic limestone structures extending to a depth of 80 m and considered the deepest cave in India.