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India: Khajuraho

WARNING: this post contains pictures of ‘sexy’ sculptures. Parental Supervision required  The main reason that Khajuraho is on the tourist radar is due to a large amount of, er, sexy sculptures on the temples in this area. Seriously, they’re filthy! The temples themselves are Medieval and Jain temples and are considered one of the ‘Seven Wonders’ of India.ContinueContinue reading “India: Khajuraho”

Travelling to Khajuraho

Well I haven’t really done much today but I do fear that I’m turning into a ‘gap-yah’ backpacker (for those of you who have no idea what that is: click here). The reason that I am turning into a Gap Yah is because today I bought a Pashmina 🙂  I had nothing to do today but wait around for my train, which wasn’t until 11.20pm, so I took an auto-rickshawContinueContinue reading “Travelling to Khajuraho”

India: Mathura and Vrindivan

Meeting up at the train station with Lu and Dave I was lucky enough to get tickets on the trains I wanted tomorrow. Yay! The day started with annoyance when the auto-rickshaw driver took me to the wrong bus station and then I couldn’t work out which bus to get on because all of the signs are in Hindi! I managed though, and eventually I gotContinueContinue reading “India: Mathura and Vrindivan”

India: Fatehpur Sikri

Today I met up with my new Czech friends for breakfast in Café Coffee Day. It was a little bit of a stress as the place had no milk and no food, so I got my drinks only and then went to Joneys Place for a proper breakfast. Not the end of the world, but it took longer than I had anticipated, so was reallyContinueContinue reading “India: Fatehpur Sikri”

India: The rest of Agra

Agra Fort The Agra Fort was begun by Emperor Akbar in 1565 and grew with each successive leader. Shah Jahan (of Taj Mahal) fame included a large amount of construction in marble. Used originally as a military building, the fort has seen a transformation into a palace and then a prison. Aurangzeb (Shah Jahan’s son)ContinueContinue reading “India: The rest of Agra”

India: Taj Mahal

Happy Diwali before I begin. Today I have been awake since 3am and saw Diwali in at the train station where I saw loads of Indian couples who was clearly going to family for Diwali…they arrived in their western style clothes and then there was a huge rabble of them in the Womens loo…as they came out I realized that they was all going in to put on their Saris!ContinueContinue reading “India: Taj Mahal”

India: Travelling to Agra

In order to get my first train at 6am, I had to get up at the glorious hour of 5am! Not my finest moment: rolling out of bed and stomping down the busy main road (who has business to see to at 5am the day before Diwali?!) towards the train station in the misty morning light. Finding the firstContinueContinue reading “India: Travelling to Agra”

India: Ajanta Caves

I begun the day in the train station ticket office trying to get onto a train to Agra for later this evening. This was not easy because all of the seats had been filled, so I tried getting an ‘emergency’ ticket. Some of the tickets are held back on popular routes for tourists. I was lucky enoughContinueContinue reading “India: Ajanta Caves”

India: Daulatabad Fort and Ellora Caves

Today I hired a man and an Auto-Rickshaw to take me to see some sights: Daulatabad Fort and Ellora Caves. I was supposed to get up at 6.30am and meet him at 7am…but I slept through the alarm so woke at 7am and literally ran out of the door! The cool air and the bracing rickshaw rideContinueContinue reading “India: Daulatabad Fort and Ellora Caves”