private car, there are plenty of tour operator you can choos

Getting Around Ellora
If you are going from Aurangabad, you can get various places to stop by while you drive to Ellora Caves. When you start your journey from Aurangabad after 15km you reached to Daulatabad Fort, and an about 10km head to you will reach Khuldabad, a kind of calm & beautiful hill station, there are few Sufi’s tomb to stop by, head over few kilometer to east and you reach to Bhadra Maruti Mandir.
Our advice is to start off early morning and plan your Ellora Caves visit accordingly so that you can visit all above mentioned places while stopping at the Ellora Caves at the end of the day journey.