Orchha

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On again to Orchha ...what a wonderful surprise!! The countryside became quite wooded, with tracts of forest and very few people. All of a sudden we turned into a dirt driveway with large coloured iron gates...down a long track and found ourselves at what looked like a very old large building complex with nice gardens. It turned out to be another maharajah's summer residence, with a beautiful, huge inner courtyard, and suites of rooms all overlooking this. It was clearly very old, and not in the best of repair building wise, but we opened up ourt suite (living room, outside balcony/terrace, bedroom, bathroom etc to find we were overlooking the most beautiful river, with clean water tumbling over the rtocks...such a glorious surprise - so we were stratight down into the water. After that Al went for a walk through the farms along the river, crossed the river and went almost up to the temples we were to see the next day at our next stop at Khajuraho, a world heritage site. (We felt it was a great pity that we couldn't stay longer than the one day, we enjoyed it so much there!)

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Photos

Bundelkhand Riverside
Looking out over river from hotel balcony

Comments

[samrat dhamale]

Wow.. ur images reminds me of my trip to madhya pradesh in feb 09.. dint u visit datiya which is in the way from gwalior to jhansi..datiya has good 7 floor palace.. also u dont have any mention of jhansi over here.. bandhavgarh national park is a must visit if u are wile life enthusiastic.