An interesting pice of history associated with these forts-A top warrior who captured these tough forts Krishnadeva Raya, the emperor of Vijayanagar captured all these forts and gave the former Bhamani sardars the run for their money. In the military history of Deccan/South India this was indeed an amazing feat. As long as he was alive the Mulim Sultanates ceased on their
ventures south.
Great pictures and notes Thnks so much for visiting Batak heritage, our village and home. This can be a valuable story telling to share with our children who are now living far away from that place.
borobudur my sister and i are planning to visit borobudur nxt year...unfortunately, dont have my passport yet.but definitely,nxt year,i'll have one..cant wait for nxt year..im excited coz it's my first time to go out of the country....
wonder full oh very great. right now i am studying B.A 2nd year. so thats i visited your website to watch moghul forts. i feel very happy..
GIRI KOPPINEEDI.
Stephan and Klaudia,
this is a great job you have been doing especially to report whatever you have seen during your travelling.
I visited several times that island but never reached many places like you did. Good jobs and hope foreigners or tourist do not forget this Island forever in their hard.
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.
nice pictures it's an interesting article that will help me much as I am now teaching someone who likes plants. I myself never see the bogor's botanical garden since I am not too keen with plants and I live far away in Jember East Java but having read it I would let myself try to see it someday.
its great i have been in Yogya since 3 years. that is a beautiful town....expecially prambanan temple...........i think prambanan is a great place to visit
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
name of the demons Hello, I just returned from Bali and I forgot to ask an original inhabitant (and cant find elsewhere) the name of the demon that wears checked loincloth?
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.
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.
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
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
Beautiful post Hello Stephan and Klaudia,
I read this travelogue on Shekhawati. I must say that its very beautifully narrated and is quite informative. Its also good to see that you have travelled extensively in India.
I invite you to visit www.ghumakkar.com, I have posted two posts on Shekhawati there. I hope you will have feeling of "Deja Vu".
Again, beautiful pictures and wonderful narration.
I hope you continue travelling and keep on providing us good information.
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hello. how lucky you are to see this place alive... i just wanted to say that those are Gharials, not crocodiles.