Duckwyn's Travel Blog

Photo by Mustang Joe on Flickr Imagine a structure so geometrically perfect that it inspired the prison pit in "The Dark Knight Rises," and it was built over 1,200 years ago without modern technology. Hidden in the small village of Abhaneri in Rajasthan, Chand Baori is one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India, featuring 3,500 perfectly symmetrical steps cascading 13 stories into the earth. This is an ancient engineering marvel that solved a critical problem: how to