Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Information about borra caves

The caves are located in the Ananthagiri hills range of the Araku valley of the Visakhapatnam district in Andhra Pradesh. The distance of caves from nearby cities is as follows: Bhubaneshwar in Odisha 448 km via National Highway 5; Hydrabad 656 km via National Highway 5. The caves are well connected by road, rail and air services. The nearest international airport is Visakhapatnam Airport, 76 km (47.2 mi) from Borra caves and 12 km from the Visakhapatnam city center. Vishkapatnam is 90 km (55.9 mi) away by road. It is mostly a hill road and the journey takes about 3 hours.
Train services operate on the Kothavalasa-Kirandul railway line in East Coast Railway, Indian Railways. The train journey over a distance of 100 km (62.1 mi) from the Vishkapatanam railway station passes through Eastern Ghats (hill) section), which has 30 tunnels en route. The journey by train takes about 5 hours to the Railway Station near the caves called the Borra Guhalu Railway station’.

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