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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Elephanta Festival 2011

Elephanta Festival 2011 - Day 1

Event Date: Sat, 05/03/2011 (All day)

5th March 2011
Dr Raja and Radha Reddy - Kuchipudi Dance

Pandi Shivkumar Sharma - Santoor

6th March 2011
Geeta Chandran - Bharatnatyam

Devaki Pandit - Vocal

Venue - Elephanta Island 6.30 pm onwards
Tickets - 500/- (per day) includes to and fro journey by launch
Launches will leave gateway of india between 4.00 pm and 6.30 pm and will return from 9.30 pm onwards from elephanta island
travel time approx 1 hour 15 minutes

For Tickets
Reservation Division 022 22845678
Dadar(MTDC) 022 24143200
CST Railway Counter 022 22622859
Gateway of India 022 22841877
Rhythm House 43222701
Ravindra Natya Mandir 24312956/24365997

Elephanta Island (also called Gharapuri Island or place of caves) is one of a number of islands in Mumbai Harbour, east of Mumbai, India. This island is a popular tourist destination for a day trip because of the island's cave temples, the Elephanta Caves, that have been carved out of rock.

The present name Elephanta, was given by 17th century Portuguese explorers, after seeing a monolithic basalt sculpture of an elephant found here near the entrance. They decided to take it home but ended up dropping it into the sea because their chains were not strong enough.

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