Orcha

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Orcha is amazing - lots of red sandstone palaces to explore. There are loads of little stairways and passages all over the place. Reminds me of one of those Escher pictures. Went right up into the top turrets. Bit nervewracking as you get the impression health and safety standards aren't what they are in old Blighty...
Lots of vultures perched on top of the domes - they look part of the building, kind of like scrawny gargoyles
We're staying in one of the palaces. NO more scummy backpacker life for us! Though the manager did look ascance as we rocked up in the most bizarre-looking rickshaw, all covered in dust and generally looking like shit after a 4 hour bus journey. The waiter here reminds me of Manuel off Fawlty Towers.

Off to Agra then Delhi tomorrow. Apparantly they're both tourist death-traps with lots of hard-core hawkers etc. Well it's gotta be done...

Laters,

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