We met up with Jayshree and her American cousin, Heena, in this small tidier-than-most town. How good to meet up with jayshree again so that she could do all the negotiation with the tuktuk drivers. When we might give in, she sticks to her price and so our first venture out to see the eastern set of temples was negotiated down from 200 to 150 rupees round trip. And the bantering continued with our tuktuk driver saying he owned 6 tuktuks, he was 16, spoke 6 languages, and was off to Germany and jayshree was very unfair not to give him 200rupees!.
Tourists come to Khajuraho to see the erotic carvings on the temples and we had an excellent guide who explained where the carvings fitted into Hinduism. No embarrassment in pointing out the various karma sutra positions!
Every temple has a steep flight of steps and Heena, Jayshree and Francis pulled me up and guided me down pyramid-like stairways. Travelling with young people keeps you young. Our (females only) afternoon was spent having a back and neck Ayurvedic massage. We set off tomorrow for our safaris having stocked up on nibbles for the 5 hour journey to Bhandavgarh.
Tourists come to Khajuraho to see the erotic carvings on the temples and we had an excellent guide who explained where the carvings fitted into Hinduism. No embarrassment in pointing out the various karma sutra positions!
Every temple has a steep flight of steps and Heena, Jayshree and Francis pulled me up and guided me down pyramid-like stairways. Travelling with young people keeps you young. Our (females only) afternoon was spent having a back and neck Ayurvedic massage. We set off tomorrow for our safaris having stocked up on nibbles for the 5 hour journey to Bhandavgarh.
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