Another TripAdvisor advised detour in India, we stopped at our second step well. Throughout the trip it never ceased to amaze me how advanced Indian engineering was. Abhaneri was built for one reason, to harvest rain water.

Stepwells, also called kalyani or pushkarani (Kannada: ), bawdi (Hindi: बावड़ी) or baoli (Hindi: बावली), barav (Marathi: बारव), vaav (Gujarati: વાવ) are wells or ponds in which the water may be reached by descending a set of steps. They may be covered and protected and are often of architectural significance. They also may be multi-storied having a bullock which turns the water wheel ("rehat") to raise the water in the well to the first or second floor.

I wonder when the last time this step well was full?

We were not allowed down.

Beautiful green water with thousands of steps and I counted 14 levels. Amazing piece of 8th century work.

The architecture around the well was stunning.

Random chunks of block filled the corridors, from temples in the area.

For the traveller moving from Agra to Jaipur (or vice versa), it is an interesting detour.