Erotic sculptures in the Temples of Khajuraho

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Day 18: ORCHHA - KHAJURAHO - VARANASI

Friday, May 18, 2012

Good morning to everybody!! Today begins what is possibly the longest day of our trip to india, in which we will go from Orchha to Khajuraho, where we will visit the well-known Temples of Khajuraho, for at night, take a night train to Varanasi.
Today we have no hotel in India and our night train to Varanasi departs at 23.20h, so we have all day ahead to do things and without “place” to rest 🙂 This on any other trip would not have been a problem, but here, with the heat that ago, we crave it will be a bit awkward.


At 8 in the morning we leave Amar Mahal and get on our way to the Fort of Orchha and once there, we go around it completely and walking we take good photos, so when we get to the inside, we decide that we don't feel like it Too much see another Fort, how many have we been? Buff ... we don't want to detract from it but we don't want to see another one anymore. So it is best to go to Khajuraho.


Orchha Fort images

Colors in Orchha Fort

Views from Orchha Fort

Views from the Orchha Fort of the Orchha Temples

The journey to Khajuraho We do quite well, although there are sections of the road that are very bad.
We arrived there at 12 in the morning and it is a heart attack. Something that does not surprise us with what we have already been through.
We are with Om that we will be until 4 in the afternoon circling the streets Khajuraho and shops and that we will take advantage of this to make some acquisitions and then we will go to see the erotic sculptures in the temples of Khajuraho At the end of the afternoon it will be less hot and we will surely enjoy the visit more.
Well, we don't know how, but just getting out of the car we already had 4 men stuck to us without leaving us a minute alone.
In the end we ended up entering 5 stores in a row and I bought a wooden box with tea ... to know what psychological techniques they use ... but at the end they made us fall!
After this materialistic stress we started to walk and I fell in love with a wooden mask that represents a shadú, we asked for prices, we hagged and we didn't get too much discount.
It is clear that once they let us go, they had reached their price and could not lower more.
So while I'm telling Roger that I'm not leaving without the mask, so we turn around and go out with my newspaper-wrapped mask tucked in my backpack. When we leave, we get closer to show us their stores.
And half lost through the streets and in order to avoid more harassment we go straight to some Khajuraho Temples that we see there nearby and in them we see the opportunity to "relax".
It is 1 noon and we are not hungry yet, so we plan to do these, “they will be tiny and that's it”… how delusional we have been.
Well, after taking out the tickets and being surprised why they charge us 250 rupees per person, we see that they are the Temples of the West, and that these are what we had to do in the afternoon !!! They are the best and the most famous.
And there we are, at 45 degrees, without eating, visiting the famous Khajuraho temples and their erotic sculptures!!!
We propose to visit them in a couple of hours and the truth is that for every Temple we visit, we are 15 minutes in the shade recovering.


Some Temples of Khajuraho

Khajuraho Temples

Details in the Temples of Khajuraho

Shadows in the Temples of Khajuraho

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Khajuraho Temples

In full sun in the Temples of Khajuraho

Walking among the Temples of Khajuraho

A detail ... Temples of Khajuraho

Resting in the Temples of Khajuraho

Roger takes him much better than me, but I have almost no strength with this strong heat of India.
The truth is that we like them a lot, but they don't impress us as much as we imagined. Perhaps we had high expectations for this and that has been the "problem."


Details in the Temples of Khajuraho

Details in the Temples of Khajuraho

Khajuraho Temples

Walking through the Temples of Khajuraho

The heat although it becomes overwhelming at many times, we are raffling it entering the Khajuraho Temples and resting in the shade.
And after buying several times water and soft drinks in a couple of beach bars that are inside the enclosure.


Khajuraho Temples

Expanded views of the Khajuraho Temples

Khajuraho Temples

Details of Khajuraho Temples

Khajuraho Temples

In front of the Khajuraho Temples

Posing in the Temples of Khajuraho

Resting in the Temples of Khajuraho with the booties of the Taj Mahal !! 🙂

Khajuraho Temples

Total that after 2 hours, we leave the Khajuraho Temples and we are going to eat a couple of pasta dishes with two Namaste sodas India, a restaurant right in front of the Temples, where they also have free Wi-Fi.
We eat for a little less than 400 rupees and we rest here for a little while, although they have air, the thermometer is 41 degrees ... so you can imagine the desire we have to move ... hahahaha


Namaste India restaurant in Khajuraho

At 4 o'clock Om comes to us and we tell him that we are dead of heat at this hour and make the visit of the rest of Temples and the ancient city seems to us a barbarity, so we opted to get into a cyber that is nearby to kill the time catching up with news and emails.
At 5:30 in the afternoon we set off to the old city of Khajuraho, where a guy who speaks very good Spanish comes with us and teaches us the whole town for more than an hour.


Touring the ancient town of Khajuraho

Just married house in Khajuraho

Khajuraho streets

Well in Khajuraho

Touring the ancient town of Khajuraho

The idea of ​​going with a guide is not too much for us, but the truth is that we liked it and explained many things that we did not understand, so we have considered this “mini” excursion very positive.


Is there or is there no water? Khajuraho

Barber of the ancient village of Khajuraho. 5 rupees per shave !!

From here we go to some stores because we want to buy some handicraft things that we do not find and in the end in a couple of stores we find almost everything we want.
But not before leaving the store several times and getting in the car to wait for them to come looking for us to arrive at our final price.
Luck also to the intervention of Om, who told them that we were coming from Mahendra.
It's already 8:30, so we're going to have dinner at the Mediterranean Restaurant of Khajuraho, from the same owners as Jaipur and we eat a delicious pizza with a plate of pasta, plus 2 soft drinks and a water, all for 700 rupees.
And we only have to wait at 10 pm for Om to come and pick us up and take us to the train station.
There we have the time left, waiting for our train to arrive. At first to go quite clueless, we ask several times for the train and they assure us that it is coming on track 1 and will arrive shortly.
We look at every detail of the station, hoping to find those images that we have seen in many reports about India And we see them. But after so many days here, they don't surprise us too much. Perhaps this shows us that we are already half accustomed to this amazing country.
About 11 the train arrives, we look for our wagons and seats / bed and after securing the backpacks with chains, we hope they bring us the pillows and sheets.
The truth is that I expected much worse.
I have to say that I am quite comfortable and I think I will sleep all night ... the only thing I do not plan to visit is the bathroom :))
And after relaxing for a while listening to the snoring of the partner who has touched us in front, I close my eyes and start dreaming about ghats, incense, saris ... we are already on our way, we are going to Varanasi !!!

Day 19
VARANASI

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