I spent the day visiting the Khajuraho temple complex. These Hindu and Jain temples are quite remarkable, and feature some rather naughty sculptures of people and animals in all sorts of erotic poses!
Khajuraho Temple Complex in India
Thursday 22/01/04
After a good breakfast, I went to see the western group of temples, which I have to say were pretty impressive.
Just why they were all built in this one, out of the way place is a mystery. My answer to it is that it was a builders display for people from other towns to come and choose the temple they wanted to build in their home towns!
A lot of them had erotic sculptures lining the walls. Again, a group of random Indians asked to take my photo, and I got an equally bemused tourist to take a photo of them with me as well. I spent the evening playing chess with a couple of locals and drinking chai.
I spent the next couple of days chilling out, and taking various trains to get to Amritsar, which you can read in the next section.
Read more about my India train travel adventure
This is a directory to the blog posts in this series.
- First day in India
- Second day in Delhi
- Sightseeing around Delhi
- First Indian train journey
- Calcutta
- Sightseeing in Calcutta
- Puri
- Day trip to Konark
- Bubenishwar
- Calcutta again
- Into Darjeeling
- Darjeeling day 2
- Darjeeling day 3
- Train journey from Darjeeling to Varanassi
- Boat ride on the Ganges
- Another night on a train
- Journey to Khajorho
- Khajorho
- Amritsar
- Taj Mahal
- Waiting at the station
- Quiet day
- Jodhpur
- Jaisalmer
- Camel Safari
- Problem day
- Jaisalmer Festival
- To Ranthambore
- Tigerless safari day 1
- Tigerless safari day 2
- Another day, another railway station
- On to Mumbai
- Mumbai
- Aurangabad
- Ajanta
- Ellora Caves – Day 1
- Ellora Caves – Day 2
- Hyderabad
- Chill out day
- The end of the India trip
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