India 2005

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Khajuraho

We had breakfast at 7:00am and caught a cycle-rickshaw to the Western temples. We found a guide (or I should say a guide found us) to point out all of the 'interesting' carvings and started the tour of the 9 Western temples. The tour was a lot of fun, and the carvins were incredibly detailed for being 1000 years old! I wasn't feeling well (I think it was just the sun and the lack of water I had had the day before), so we went back to spend the day at the hotel pool. We headed out again around 3:00pm and toured the Eastern temples. The temples were also great, but we had been spoiled by all of the carvings we had seen in the morning. We then toured the old Khajuraho village, a local guy pointed out how separately the four casts of people still live. The mayor of the town even came out to give us a tour of his home (complete with shop! ha ha). We stopped by the Blue Sky Restaurant and enjoyed dinner in our own tree house with a view of the Western temples. The coconut cashew curry was incredible!