Sexy Temple Heaven in Khajuraho - March 18-25 2015

Khajuraho is home to a famous group of impressive temples which are one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, their fame mostly due to the erotic carvings featured on some of them, and they are often referred to as the  "Kamasutra temples". Due to their remote location in the state of Madhya Pradesh, these unique temples survived the many Muslim dynasties that ruled in the area and desecrated many Jain and Hindu temples over the years.

Besides the western temple complex where you can see these sexy carvings there are several more temples scattered around the small town, which we decided to check out first. We rented bicycles (100 Rs per day) from a shop just next to Zen Hotel where we stayed (400 Rs) and rode around for a few hours visiting some very nice temples including a Jain temple and riding around the fields and small village, trying to get rid of new "friends" who tagged along, two fairly nice guys on a motor bike that gave us (wrong) directions to one temple and than jut followed us and insisted on showing us around though we made it clear we didn't want that. This is the time to say that Khajuraho is infamous for these kind of hassles and touts directed at the many tourist that this place attracts. It is virtually impossible to walk down the main street without being approached by locals wanting to sell you anything from scarves to drugs and begging for you to visit their shop (sometimes these are very sweet children who speak great English and are very friendly). On this note of course our new friends kept following us around claiming they didn't want anything in return and were doing this out of the goodness of their heart- and of course in the end they tried to get some commission off of us  by taking us into an antique store (we went in beacuse the owner was an old friendly man but didn't buy anything).

The following day we visited the western temples (250 Rs entrance fee) which are quite remarkable and exhibit some awe-worthy architecture and craftsmanhip. The carvings, erotic or not, is impossibly intricate.

We enjoyed some delicious and ridiculously cheap street food in a lot across from Namaste Cafe on the main street, including one of the best masala dosas (30 Rs) I had (which is actually a South Indian dish, go figure), momos (4 pieces for 10 Rs!), chowmein and chola bhatura. Another nice restaurant is Sarkash Agrawal on the main road.

At night we boarded the train to Varanasi with apparently all of the other foreigners in town (seriously there were maybe 2 Indians on the whole train!)