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May 6th 2005 by Stephan and Klaudia
The rickshaw-driver wanted to take us to the bus stand in Jhansi but we stayed firm knowing that bus to Khajuraho would leave from the train station at 11 a.m. We arrived in due time and were happy to get numbered seats, this way we could avoid struggling for the best seats, which we have come to hate. A couple of minutes before the bus' departure two white ladies came on board, probably mother and daughter, they arrived just in time. This bus also stopped at the bus stand and we were glad to have got in at the train station because now it filled up and quite many people had to stand. The trip itself was fine, although it took 5 hours, we arrived as fresh as paint because the bus was a so-called 'deluxe' and fairly comfortable. In Khajuraho we had the same trouble as in all major tourist destinations in India, the rickshaw-drivers wanted overpriced rates. We were fed up and ready to walk, when the American ladies (we realized their accent when they were talking) supported us in our wish not to pay too much. In the end we found a decently priced rickshaw and soon found
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June 24th 2005 - bridget: congratulation to you both
its really amazing, pictures and articals are really marvolous, i really enjoyed reading and noticing the beautiful pictures, when i get opportunity i shall surely visit with my family.
good work, keep it up
July 4th 2005 - harish: great article
agree with bridget that articles and pictures are great. Looking foward to visit Khajuraho in dec.
September 19th 2005 - Shahryar: Wonderful!
Thank god those monomaniacal muslims did not discover these temples or we would see piles of rubble today!
October 8th 2005 - Raj: Shahryra's comment
Hi good work and pictures Stephen & Klaudia. Though Sharyar's comments on Muslims as monomaniacal is uncalled for.
October 14th 2005 - A NON fanatical Hindu: nice blog, bad comments by rabid Hindus
I thought the blog was fantastic. However, i would say that the response from Shahryar is stupid and useless and typifies basic Hindu fundamentalist tendencies which we otherwise critique muslim fundamentalists for. All you have to do is see the RSS in India to really know what Monomaniacal means. You shame me as a normal Hindu Indian, Shahryar. I assume you are Indian, and you probably should be kicked out of the country.
October 15th 2005 - vinu: great pics
Pics are great and place too. Especially that boar pic.
Comments on muslims is uncalled. But, anyone who visited Hampi would surely remember / accept this comment.
December 3rd 2005 - Anindya: Good read
I am just back from a visit to Khajuraho. Your piece was very refreshing. The retoration works seems to be over - no scaffoldings any more - and the gardens are beautiful. I had missed the sculpture of the dancers - so good to see it.
Re comments by others, Shahryar is not a hindu name - more likely muslim - so the comment is an expression of secular views, i imagine. We in India are proud of our heritage - whether hindu, muslim, sikh, jain or christian...
February 8th 2006 - naddy: good comment, anindya!
i love to read that there's someone who really visited this place - seems to be very interesting there! maybe it's worth it to travel there and see for myself though i'm from germany...
March 5th 2006 - billy: great!
It's incredble!How marvelous!
March 7th 2006 - shiva: Awesome
pic's are really excellent .We did not get the opportunity to go there but because of ur pic we got any opportuity to see the temple.
All the best and take some more pic of other temples.
March 8th 2006 - Roxi: WOW
Seriously beautiful pictures! I love them!
April 22nd 2006 - Nitin: Monomaniacal Muslims!
Unfortunately people still do not acknowledge how the muslim rulers have plundered and looted Hindu Temples, Severed Hindu Idols and Deity images and brutally massacred Hindu Women and Children as infidels for nearly 400 years all in the name of faceless Allah!
April 23rd 2006 - John: excellent photography
I would appreciate Stephan and Klaudia for such beautiful photography. I believe the sculptures are surely beautiful but capturing beauty is an art known by few. Pls don’t comment on any religion, religion consist of good and bad followers. We cannot blame muslims for having few cruel leaders.
May 6th 2006 - krishna: What an eye opener!
I live a few hundred kilometers from khajuraho and never visited it. The tourism dept. brochures and photos were so drab I felt it's a waste going there. As we Indians all know but rarely admit, it takes a foreigner to appreciate and bring out the real worth of a place. To discover after all these years that yes, it's not all about sex!
May 13th 2006 - Kunal Arya: Muslims Plundered
Of cause muslins destroyed great architecture around the world, who are we fooling? Its a miracle these monuments were not discovered by muslims
June 12th 2006 - Pratima: very nice place to go
very beautiful. lots of intricate works and extraordinary pictures you guys. great job. and oh the faceless fight of words that you all can bring to any part of this world. what is the use crying over spilled milk? muslims being good/bad makes no one look any better or worse. if they were all so bad and still are then why do muslims exist in this world? only cos there is still some good in this world and that's worth living.
July 8th 2006 - pravin: the heaven of love
both of you done remarkably fabulus work to show these hevanly creaters of love to our world,and you sho thw world that its not all about sex.yuo are geneous , we thank you from bottom of our heart that you show us such hevenly creaters of love and sclpture , that we stiil not seen ,thank you keep going
December 19th 2006 - travelbuffs: real cool
Happened to check your blog. Real neat. I've hrd a lot abt ths place-Now got to see how it looks like. Will sure visit some day!
April 9th 2007 - Hemant: Design
Outstanding Sculptures and Architecture
May 15th 2007 - anil bhatt: amazing
its really nice pics, you two are really good traveller..........i hope so, sex is not a fun its all about yoga......................think and feel.
May 31st 2007 - abdul: woh allah
ITS SUPERB. THE CREATER IS EXCELLENT
July 7th 2007 - Srini: Nice writings
Your writing is very lucid and the images are excellent. Though I live in India, I have never been to Khajuraho. I will make my visit soon
December 10th 2007 - ashok: Finding Facts
Dear friend
I visited Khajuraho in 1981 along with my wife and other family members and had a chance to see each and every creation very minutely -
I am very fond of sketching and have done farely well I understand how difficult it is to put live expressions into any sketch on a piece of paper and that too just two dimension figure I can well imagine how much acuracy concentration of mind and steady hands with clarity in imagination is required for a man to be able to achieve this perfaction -
The questions that comein my mind time and again who was the person who gave instruction to these artists what did he have in his mind at that time and what he wanted to show the world ?
can you throw some light on this please
thanks
rgds
ashok
January 28th 2008 - Dr Ch Subrahmanyam: Rickshaw over-priced
I read with amusement that the person who is pulling rickshaw is over pricing!!! His status is the lowest in economic sense and what he takes with the over priced amount does not make him report qtr/qtr a profit percent like the Air carrier you would have travelled or the Hotels you would have used. I think, when they ask more than what is considered over price, is because, he is never appreciated. He never could become anything bigger than what he began his life as Rickshaw puller.
Best Regards
February 27th 2008 - Anurag: Pseudosecularism-Media propagada
I can`t understand why the people can`t accept reality.The Muslim Rulers(plunderers) like Nadir shah,Timur Shah,Aurangzeb and many others tried their best to eliminate hinduism.They destroyed temples,defaced the beautiful idols,burnt massive libraries of Nalanda and built mosques in place of temple.The history has enough proof.
Its not about RSS or politics,its about accepting the truth.Its the pseudosecularist media who always are against hinduism in name secularism.
March 13th 2008 - Dasanudas: the demon Aurangezeb
Yes. People need to understand about the cycles of reaction, and they need to understand that these things happened not as isolated instances, but over the course of about 500 years. Today India is constantly in danger of terrorist attacks but some people are more inclined to immediately point out how undesirable to the hindu nationalist organisations are, not understanding that after so many centuries of mohameddan aggression, there is bound to be some reaction like this.
The beneficient ruler Akbar patronised academia and philosophy and contributed to the building of great temples. Then his son Aurangezeb came to power (in the process having his brothers head taken to his imprisoned father) and caused many temples and deities to be destroyed.
March 18th 2008 - Ashar: Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
No religion teaches other than humanity, only different human beings interpret things differently. One whoz tyrant get burried in the soil of time and the one who learns the morals of humanity is remembered through the golden pages of history. One who can think different & ahead of time is only the real human of his time. "History teaches us nothing, but to learn from the mistakes that our Ancestors has made so that we should not repeat them and to build upon the base of their creative thoughts". India is a country of diversity and unanimity, so lets give this strong message to the world as well.
April 23rd 2008 - Anil K Chugh:
Beautiful pictures of wonderful master pieces of art
May 6th 2008 - Sucheta Ghosh: Beautiful Write up
Hi. I am sucheta. Though I live very colse to khajuraho but this was the first time i got a chance to visit the place. Of course we went at the wrong time (in summer) But its the most beautiful place and your blog has described it very accurately. I just want to add that you did not mention about the two water falls very close to khajuraho. One of them is called Pandav Falls. Its the most serene and tranquil beauty I've seen till now. Of course not a seen that many places till now. But still I loved it. I could hear my inner voice in that place because it was so peaceful and calm.
You take care and enjoy Life and all the places you keep visiting.
Sucheta
June 4th 2008 - puja: indiana
i am really very much obliged that india has got such artfull temples.
the statues are really very good. one can learn many poses through these.
June 11th 2008 - P Bhardwaj Adv.:
hi,thanks for visiting and bringing the actual fame of khajuraho to others.
March 27th 2009 - sandeep soni: about sex statues
hi,
I think these statues had been made for teaching us the lesson of good sex . the expression of faces of boy & girl while sex are so relaxive. they enjoy sex without fear& tension
October 13th 2009 - SHIKHA: all pics ae amazing.....collection of india.
all pics ae amazing.....collection of india
November 29th 2009 - mahendra gohil: temt to visit
apart from the sex subject good collection of khajuraho temple arts( carving in stone).good photography for collection.
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Matangesvara Temple
Although this temple dates from 900-25 AD, it is still in use, as you can well see
35 Comments - Add Public Comment or Send Private Message
June 24th 2005 - bridget: congratulation to you both
its really amazing, pictures and articals are really marvolous, i really enjoyed reading and noticing the beautiful pictures, when i get opportunity i shall surely visit with my family.
good work, keep it up
July 4th 2005 - harish: great article
agree with bridget that articles and pictures are great. Looking foward to visit Khajuraho in dec.
September 19th 2005 - Shahryar: Wonderful!
Thank god those monomaniacal muslims did not discover these temples or we would see piles of rubble today!
October 8th 2005 - Raj: Shahryra's comment
Hi good work and pictures Stephen & Klaudia. Though Sharyar's comments on Muslims as monomaniacal is uncalled for.
October 14th 2005 - A NON fanatical Hindu: nice blog, bad comments by rabid Hindus
I thought the blog was fantastic. However, i would say that the response from Shahryar is stupid and useless and typifies basic Hindu fundamentalist tendencies which we otherwise critique muslim fundamentalists for. All you have to do is see the RSS in India to really know what Monomaniacal means. You shame me as a normal Hindu Indian, Shahryar. I assume you are Indian, and you probably should be kicked out of the country.
October 15th 2005 - vinu: great pics
Pics are great and place too. Especially that boar pic.
Comments on muslims is uncalled. But, anyone who visited Hampi would surely remember / accept this comment.
December 3rd 2005 - Anindya: Good read
I am just back from a visit to Khajuraho. Your piece was very refreshing. The retoration works seems to be over - no scaffoldings any more - and the gardens are beautiful. I had missed the sculpture of the dancers - so good to see it.
Re comments by others, Shahryar is not a hindu name - more likely muslim - so the comment is an expression of secular views, i imagine. We in India are proud of our heritage - whether hindu, muslim, sikh, jain or christian...
February 8th 2006 - naddy: good comment, anindya!
i love to read that there's someone who really visited this place - seems to be very interesting there! maybe it's worth it to travel there and see for myself though i'm from germany...
March 5th 2006 - billy: great!
It's incredble!How marvelous!
March 7th 2006 - shiva: Awesome
pic's are really excellent .We did not get the opportunity to go there but because of ur pic we got any opportuity to see the temple.
All the best and take some more pic of other temples.
March 8th 2006 - Roxi: WOW
Seriously beautiful pictures! I love them!
April 22nd 2006 - Nitin: Monomaniacal Muslims!
Unfortunately people still do not acknowledge how the muslim rulers have plundered and looted Hindu Temples, Severed Hindu Idols and Deity images and brutally massacred Hindu Women and Children as infidels for nearly 400 years all in the name of faceless Allah!
April 23rd 2006 - John: excellent photography
I would appreciate Stephan and Klaudia for such beautiful photography. I believe the sculptures are surely beautiful but capturing beauty is an art known by few. Pls don’t comment on any religion, religion consist of good and bad followers. We cannot blame muslims for having few cruel leaders.
May 6th 2006 - krishna: What an eye opener!
I live a few hundred kilometers from khajuraho and never visited it. The tourism dept. brochures and photos were so drab I felt it's a waste going there. As we Indians all know but rarely admit, it takes a foreigner to appreciate and bring out the real worth of a place. To discover after all these years that yes, it's not all about sex!
May 13th 2006 - Kunal Arya: Muslims Plundered
Of cause muslins destroyed great architecture around the world, who are we fooling? Its a miracle these monuments were not discovered by muslims
June 12th 2006 - Pratima: very nice place to go
very beautiful. lots of intricate works and extraordinary pictures you guys. great job. and oh the faceless fight of words that you all can bring to any part of this world. what is the use crying over spilled milk? muslims being good/bad makes no one look any better or worse. if they were all so bad and still are then why do muslims exist in this world? only cos there is still some good in this world and that's worth living.
July 8th 2006 - pravin: the heaven of love
both of you done remarkably fabulus work to show these hevanly creaters of love to our world,and you sho thw world that its not all about sex.yuo are geneous , we thank you from bottom of our heart that you show us such hevenly creaters of love and sclpture , that we stiil not seen ,thank you keep going
December 19th 2006 - travelbuffs: real cool
Happened to check your blog. Real neat. I've hrd a lot abt ths place-Now got to see how it looks like. Will sure visit some day!
April 9th 2007 - Hemant: Design
Outstanding Sculptures and Architecture
May 15th 2007 - anil bhatt: amazing
its really nice pics, you two are really good traveller..........i hope so, sex is not a fun its all about yoga......................think and feel.
May 31st 2007 - abdul: woh allah
ITS SUPERB. THE CREATER IS EXCELLENT
July 7th 2007 - Srini: Nice writings
Your writing is very lucid and the images are excellent. Though I live in India, I have never been to Khajuraho. I will make my visit soon
December 10th 2007 - ashok: Finding Facts
Dear friend
I visited Khajuraho in 1981 along with my wife and other family members and had a chance to see each and every creation very minutely -
I am very fond of sketching and have done farely well I understand how difficult it is to put live expressions into any sketch on a piece of paper and that too just two dimension figure I can well imagine how much acuracy concentration of mind and steady hands with clarity in imagination is required for a man to be able to achieve this perfaction -
The questions that comein my mind time and again who was the person who gave instruction to these artists what did he have in his mind at that time and what he wanted to show the world ?
can you throw some light on this please
thanks
rgds
ashok
January 28th 2008 - Dr Ch Subrahmanyam: Rickshaw over-priced
I read with amusement that the person who is pulling rickshaw is over pricing!!! His status is the lowest in economic sense and what he takes with the over priced amount does not make him report qtr/qtr a profit percent like the Air carrier you would have travelled or the Hotels you would have used. I think, when they ask more than what is considered over price, is because, he is never appreciated. He never could become anything bigger than what he began his life as Rickshaw puller.
Best Regards
February 27th 2008 - Anurag: Pseudosecularism-Media propagada
I can`t understand why the people can`t accept reality.The Muslim Rulers(plunderers) like Nadir shah,Timur Shah,Aurangzeb and many others tried their best to eliminate hinduism.They destroyed temples,defaced the beautiful idols,burnt massive libraries of Nalanda and built mosques in place of temple.The history has enough proof.
Its not about RSS or politics,its about accepting the truth.Its the pseudosecularist media who always are against hinduism in name secularism.
March 13th 2008 - Dasanudas: the demon Aurangezeb
Yes. People need to understand about the cycles of reaction, and they need to understand that these things happened not as isolated instances, but over the course of about 500 years. Today India is constantly in danger of terrorist attacks but some people are more inclined to immediately point out how undesirable to the hindu nationalist organisations are, not understanding that after so many centuries of mohameddan aggression, there is bound to be some reaction like this.
The beneficient ruler Akbar patronised academia and philosophy and contributed to the building of great temples. Then his son Aurangezeb came to power (in the process having his brothers head taken to his imprisoned father) and caused many temples and deities to be destroyed.
March 18th 2008 - Ashar: Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
No religion teaches other than humanity, only different human beings interpret things differently. One whoz tyrant get burried in the soil of time and the one who learns the morals of humanity is remembered through the golden pages of history. One who can think different & ahead of time is only the real human of his time. "History teaches us nothing, but to learn from the mistakes that our Ancestors has made so that we should not repeat them and to build upon the base of their creative thoughts". India is a country of diversity and unanimity, so lets give this strong message to the world as well.
April 23rd 2008 - Anil K Chugh:
Beautiful pictures of wonderful master pieces of art
May 6th 2008 - Sucheta Ghosh: Beautiful Write up
Hi. I am sucheta. Though I live very colse to khajuraho but this was the first time i got a chance to visit the place. Of course we went at the wrong time (in summer) But its the most beautiful place and your blog has described it very accurately. I just want to add that you did not mention about the two water falls very close to khajuraho. One of them is called Pandav Falls. Its the most serene and tranquil beauty I've seen till now. Of course not a seen that many places till now. But still I loved it. I could hear my inner voice in that place because it was so peaceful and calm.
You take care and enjoy Life and all the places you keep visiting.
Sucheta
June 4th 2008 - puja: indiana
i am really very much obliged that india has got such artfull temples.
the statues are really very good. one can learn many poses through these.
June 11th 2008 - P Bhardwaj Adv.:
hi,thanks for visiting and bringing the actual fame of khajuraho to others.
March 27th 2009 - sandeep soni: about sex statues
hi,
I think these statues had been made for teaching us the lesson of good sex . the expression of faces of boy & girl while sex are so relaxive. they enjoy sex without fear& tension
October 13th 2009 - SHIKHA: all pics ae amazing.....collection of india.
all pics ae amazing.....collection of india
November 29th 2009 - mahendra gohil: temt to visit
apart from the sex subject good collection of khajuraho temple arts( carving in stone).good photography for collection.
1 message(s) await review.
All Comments
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