Tours to Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, are synonymous with visits
to rocks shelters. Nearly half of the thousand or so
caves have paintings that make Bhimbetka and Central India
a popular tourist destination.
The first cave on the tour list is the famous Zoo Rock
Shelter. 14 other caves linked to the rock shelter by
concrete lanes are easy to find. Incase you want to see more
of the rock shelters and its prehistoric paintings on your
tour to Bhimbetka, the services of an experienced guide is
available to you at any time during your tour.
The cave paintings at Bhimbetka are archeological
and anthropological treasures as they document the lives of
prehistoric cave men from the Paleolithic/ Stone Age. Thus,
these came paintings are the primitive written communication
system through which communities and generations documented
and shared their history. Some of these cave paintings date
back to 12,000 years and are at least as old as the prehistoric
cave paintings found in Pyrenees on the southwest France-Spain
border.
The paintings have been sketched on the walls of the caves
with natural white and red dyes. Some walls, with varying
intensity of the dyes, suggest that the caves were inhabited
by generations of cavemen who documented their daily outings
and life experiences for others to see and remember.
The cave paintings at Bhimbetka depict men as stick figures.
The cave paintings also abound in animal figures especially
wild buffalos, bisons, deers, tigers, bears and elephants.
The common scenes painted on the walls of the rock shelters
include hunting scenes, ceremonies, communal activities such
as dancing, religious rites and burials etc. Details of tools
used to hunt, the danger that a wild animal could pose, the
intricacies of childbirth have been laid bare on the cave
walls for all to see, follow and admire. These very paintings
depict life as lead by the cavemen in details that would have
been otherwise lost to the world.
Tour to Bhimbetka also allows you to see how great civilizations
perish and understand why communities die out. The artistic
quality and the purposive nature of the cave paintings fall
to obtuse and abstract geometric shapes belonging to
the medieval period.
Just 46 km away from Bhopal, capital city of Madhya Pradesh,
Bhimbetka is easily accessible by bus.
Tourism of Central India offers specialized tour booking,
and travel packages for Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh. To book
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