Khajuraho (Khuj-u-ra-ho)
The land of the Karma Sutra temples (parental advisory - explicit material!!)
05.03.2009 - 07.03.2009
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From Delhi we got an early morning train to Jhansi, which took about 5 hours (that includes 40 mins of just waiting on the track for no reason - sigh). From Jhansi we managed to get a bus to Khajuraho, which took about 5 hours 30, and was not that enjoyable. Apart from being rather numbing on the old behind, it got so busy at points, people hanging from the bus and on the roof - a stereotypical indian bus i suppose! We got here late last night, and the room is really nice, complete with balcony!
From further exploration this morning we have discovered that Khajuraho is a small town and in all respects quite pleasant. We walked around all the temples today, which you may know as the Karma Sutra temples. They are very old and depict various scenes of a sexual nature, not fit for parental eyes! 
The greatest mystery with these temples is that they are built in the middle of nowhere (there is now a town, but when they were built they were in the middle of nowhere!). They were abandoned for nearly 300 years until a British man got lost (failing to ask for directions most likely) and stumbled upon the temples, the rest, as they say, is history. 
After having a look round the main temples we hired bicycles and rode south of the town where there are more temples, but they are less impressive than the main ones. Indian bicycles are interesting, they have no gears, are very very high and possibly the most uncomfortable things ever! But at 15p an hour to rent, whose complaining? We rode out into the Indian countryside, where the stereotypical villages were and children ran alongside us and everything! The temples were indeed less impressive, but im glad we saw them nontheless. Its good to get off the beaten track every once in a while!
We are getting a taxi back to Jhansi tomorrow (as i dont think we can face another bus journey), where we get a 19 hour train to Mumbai, which is where we will be for the next week! Due to this we will probably not write the blog for a week, as we usually achieve very little in mumbai, and have done the touristy things anyway! Just letting you know thats all, dont worry!
We shall write in a week or so,
Hope you are all well,
Chris and Alex xxx
Posted by chrisalex 06.03.2009 08:11 Archived in India Tagged backpacking
