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After enjoying the Ganges, we headed to the smaller and quieter Khajuraho, famous for its many ancient Hindu temples with detailed and stone carvings. What makes this place stand out is not only the number of temples and temple ruins, but also the carvings themselves which lean quite often to an erotic nature. Yes, that was not a typo, erotic, not exotic. This is the home of everything Kama Sutra and you can get everything from "exercise books" to playing cards and coasters with people entwined in all kinds of insane positions.

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The carvings are impressive, erotic or not, and we spent a full two days wandering the town and its outskirts. It was especially fun with the good camera. The only downside to Khajuraho was that there are not many tourists this time of year and it seems there is no other industry to keep people busy. We were literally followed almost everywhere and not one person ended a conversation without asking us to just look at their shop. Just look, no buy! Why not??

From there we headed to another historic spot, Orcha, where instead of temples there are forts and palaces. Also small Orcha itself is tiny, but you cannot look in any direction without spotting a ruin of some sort. Luckily the nice thing about forts and palaces is that they are shady, so we were really able to make the most of our time there.

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Most of the structures are in tact and some of rooms still have some gorgeous paintings on the walls. Since security is a bit lax as well, we really got to do some great climbing up towers and scrambling thru ruins. I imagine the place would be in better shape if someone paid more attention, but it was nice to be free to do as we pleased.

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