Blogs from Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India, Asia
April 30th 2012
The only A/C carriage on the night train from Agra to Khajuraho has 8 foreigners out of maybe 80-something people in the carriage – an unreasonable high proportion, if you think about it. We arrive at 7am, fight our way through rikshas, find the guy sent by our hotel to pick us up, and are driven into the nicest hotel we’ve seen inIndia. For a country with 1 billion people, 19k population of Khajuraho is tiny, the village literally consists of less than 10 roads and still is one of the main tourist attractions of the country because of its Hindu “Kamasutra” and Jain temples. The village feels very calm and quiet after Delhi and Agra, with easy to handle traffic and not-so-insistent vendors. - Look at my souvenir shop sir! - No! - ... read more
April 30th 2012
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April 2nd 2012
Monday 2 April 2012. After a good nights sleep in the Taj Hotel we were collected by yet another guide at 8.00 am. Our destination today was the resplendent Hindu temples of Khajuraho. These have been immaculately restored after almost a millennium of neglect and abandonment and are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. These temples are famed for the delicate sensuality, forthright eroticism, and everyday detail of the sculptures that decorate the facades of the temples. They were built between the 10th and 12 centuries AD and have been hailed as the greatest architectural achievement of the Chandella dynasty. By the 16th century the temples had fallen out of use and were engulfed by the surrounding jungle, until the British "rediscovered" them in 1838. Although it appears to be fairly accessible on a map, Khajurho ... read more
Khajuraho Temples: One of the Wonders of the World
Published: December 29th 2011Asia » India » Madhya Pradesh » Khajuraho
December 29th 2011
Khajuraho is famous for its temples, which are about 1,000 years old. They are widely publicised as having erotic sculptures. It was Christmas so we had booked into a nice hotel, The Ramada, which was a bit out of town away from all the noise and just what we wanted. We had a walk around a local market, which was definitely not a tourist market and we found how nice all the people were there. No mobiles with cameras on this market and so the kids were really pleased to have their photo taken, all with smiling faces, which lit up when they saw themselves on the camera screen. They have nothing, but how happy they are. Khajuraho is a pleasant little village, and that is all it is, it’s the temples we have come to ... read more
November 24th 2011
Train Depart de Varanasi en train couchette 1ere classe!!! Finalement pas trop differente de la 2e, sauf quelques petits details: - banquette mieux rembouree (communique des os de Diane) - litterie fournie - rideaux devant le compartiment et devant les couchettes sur le corridor - personne qui couche par terre entre les couchette. KHAJURAHO On arrive par un brouillard a trancher a la hache! 4 heures de retard. Mais, Khajuraho est calme, lux et volupte: - calme, parce qu'un petit village de 10 000 habitants (et puis apres Varanasi n'importe quelle autre ville parraitrait calme) - lux, parce que notre petit hotel Zen est niche dans un jardin fleuri avec 3 beaux petits basins d'eau au fleurs de lotus rose et statuettes de Budha - volupte, parce que Diane et Cornelia ont decide de se faire ... read more
October 11th 2011
*Warning: Images may be considered NSFW.* Another early arrival. We dropped our bags at a little spot recommended by the very nice Keralan couple at Ayur Arogyam, a fabulous - but pricey - ayurvedic massage place recommended by everyone. The hotel was only a spot to rest our heads and not particularly recommended, although staff were helpful. We stayed only for the day. Another train out late this evening to Varanasi. The temples for which Khajuraho is famous for are breathtaking, and it's even more amazing to think that many of them originally arose from a lake, now long gone. Most of the 85 temples - 25 of which now remain - were built between 950 to 1050 CE and remained in use for quite a while afterwards. Khajaraho's isolation helped preserve the temples from the ... read more
October 8th 2011
We caught the 6pm train from Varanassi to Khajuraho which was meant to take around 11 hours. Again we booked AC3 class. We got on the train and found it was pretty empty so we had the compartment all to ourselves. True to Indian trains we arrived 2 hours late so 7.30am which gave us little longer in bed. We had pre-booked one night accommodation with Hotel Zen, we had 5 nights in Khajuraho but Zen was pretty expensive for 1000 rupees so decided to see what it was like before booking more days and we are glad we did. The room I would say should really of been around 500 rupees with what we have paid before. We did walk around town and found a lot nicer place for only 250 rupees a night so ... read more
khajuraho - The Kama Sutra temples
Published: September 19th 2011Asia » India » Madhya Pradesh » Khajuraho
September 19th 2011
Waking on the train feeling a little worse for wear, we headed toward the exit and in search of a rickshaw. We were offered a free lift to a reasonably priced hotel, so we all 5 of us piled into the car along with the driver and his friend. Once on our way and being played some 'light' music by the smooth operator, we were taken to a hotel way out of town to 'just have a look' - refusing we then made our way to hotel Shanti Lodge where we ate breakfast and freshened up for the day. Once ready the four of us headed in a rickshaw to visit the great waterfalls, whilst John opted to ride a rustic old pedal bike the 40km return journey! Chris was also delighted when given the drivers ... read more
April 29th 2011
Before we left Agra, we were introduced to another traveller called Kat who was a journalist from Poland. She was catching the same train as us so we shared a tuk-tuk to the station. The train journey to Khajuraho was very uncomfortable on AC3. Angelo as usual wozzed out of sleeping on the top bunk as he thought he might roll of the bunk!! On arriving to Khajuraho we decided to stay in Hotel Surya and we shared a tuk-tuk with Kat. On arrival we noticed that this area was not very densely populated as other places in India and also did not look as polluted! This was a great sign! The hotel was reasonably priced, we haggled our room down to Rs 550 (Debbie had a little moan, as she felt she did not haggle ... read more
