English: Due to heavy rains (average 3300 mm) corrosive red laterite stone can be abraded or carved without metal tools. Laterite is used for rock arts including pictographs and petroglyphs. Pictographs are painting and drawings on the rock walls mostly in caves. Petroglyphs are images carved into rock. Oldest known laterite monument is from Upper Paleolithic period (50,000 to 10,000 BCE). Bhimbetka(sand stone) is perhaps oldest known cave in India 1,00,000 years old. Its paintings are dated from 30,000 BCE. Petroglyphs are mostly from Neolithic age and can be stated as next step after pictographs. Kudopi - Malvan is a famous tourist beach town in the state of Maharashtra. From Malvan motorable road via Achra goes to Padekap (16.238269, 73.501018) From this place 1.5 km trek towards North East brings you to a smaller hamlet (16.247424, 73.511209). Now there is a kaccha road to this place. This is the closest settlement where you can seek guide and water. Another half an hour walk with a local guide brings you to the Petroglyphs site of Kudopi. Height 120 meters. Other than images Kudopi also has a square well with steps.