Orchha, India Travel Blogs

Flying Lizards
Jun 10, 2005 (18 photos)

... laughter). I however choose to ignore it as amoment of 'weakness' rather than 'girly cowardice'. We were to leave Orchha that night, our driving tour of India had finally ended, and we had to say 'goodbye' to Happy our companion and driver for the last ...

Sick in Orchha
Jan 13, 2007

... rice twice a day every day.  Now, the more we eat, the more we like it.  The restaurants here in Orchha cater to the various homesick tourists by offering Italian, Chinese, American, Israeli and, of course, Korean menu items.  While ...

Orchha - a hidden gem
Jan 12, 2007 (3 photos)

... heads hit the pillow.  When we wake up we are ready for lunch and head out to explore our surroundings. The name Orchha means 'hidden' in Hindi and that is just what the small village was until it was discovered by the Lonely Planet brigade about ...

Hindu Holy Sites Tour
Dec 2, 2005 (11 photos)

... and spent quite awhile roaming around the village looking for a hotel. Our theory about lots of package tourists visiting Orchha was strengthened upon discovering the greatly inflated rates guesthouses were charging. Our search paid off, though, and we ...

Sagar, and Army Life. .
May 31, 2006

... bad road. I was glad to be solo, at that point, as the extra weight would have been dangerous on that road. North-South Highway India, from that point, to Sagar? 9 on a scale of 1-10. . . The Karnataka stretch was about 8.5. . Through small villages, ...

The Internet is slow, the villages are fabulous!
Nov 26, 2006 (46 photos)

Sitting in a compact internet cafe in a smallish village called Orchha in India. We just left an even smaller village called Chanderi this morning after spending two nights there. Intrepid tours are the only tourists that visit Chanderi right now...they ...

Orchha
May 5, 2005 (4 photos)

... , 2005 in Varanasi Freebies Orchha was an old capital of the Bundelas who ruled the central part of India in the 16th Century. To get to Pushkar from Orchha we had to hop through a couple of cities: Pushkar, Ajmer, Agra, Jhansi, and finally Orchha. ...

Jo ORCHHA
Mar 21, 2008 (19 photos)

... palacich se neplati a turisticky kancelare nemaj z toho profit... vsichni ti turisti prijdou vo to nejlepsi, co tady ta Orchha nabizi...nadherny zriceniiny, prepychovy jiny palace a hlavne: super lidi!!!! Trh je vopravdu trh. Sedej a prodavaj. Zadny ...

Train Tales and Beautiful Orchha
Jan 9, 2006 (27 photos)

... new friends in the French couple, Jose and Trinidad, and managed to plan out the next two days of our trip together. Driving into Orchha was amazing - open spaces, clean air, farm land, rivers and gorgeous sunshine (in Trinidad's words: ooh la la! what an ...

Temples etc
Apr 17, 2009

... stairs to the temple, a young chap introduced himself to me and asked the standard opening lines (Where are you from, how do you like India, how long in India, what are your opinions on Indian women). I was immediately suspicious, as almost everyone who ...

A great shave, some ruins, papu, nasty train ride
Sep 1, 2006 (11 photos)

From my perch on the crumbling wall, I can see the many domes and towers of Orchha's ancient temples and palaces towering above the village's hot and dusty streets. They dominate the hazy skyline and dwarf the smallish blue and white mud brick homes. ...

Orchha, Madhya Pradesh
Feb 20, 2007

A 4 hour standing ticket to Jhansi and a short tempo ride to Orchha.

Moving forward
Dec 26, 2007 (19 photos)

... man im naechsten Ort den Bus wechseln... Kurz vor Jhansi sind die Traveller dann ausgestiegen, da sie nach Orchha wollten. In Orchha war Markttag , eigentlich eine kleine Stadt. Ich habe mein Gepaeck abgestellt und den Palast besichtigt. Die ...

Agra to Orchha
Jan 8, 2006 (10 photos)

Agra to Orchha A small village of bout 7500 people. To get to Orcca, go south from Agra to Gwalior and then south east to Jhansi. Once past Jhansi, the roads deteriorate as they are maintained by the Indian Government (ie not maintained at all). ...

Fattybumbum smashes a bed
Apr 16, 2009

... the road. After getting off at Jhansi with few problems, I found a rickshaw and was soon motoring through the country towards Orchha, a small town with old temples and forts galore. Arriving through the ancient gates, I got off at the Fort View Hotel, ...

Orchha
Jan 21, 2009 (25 photos)

... effet arrivés à la station de bus, nous nous sommes renseigné et soit disant il n'y avait pas de bus qui s'arrêtait au centre d'Orchha. Evidemment c'était encore un mensonge !Nous avons donc partagé le tuc tuc a cinq pour économiser et là les rabatteurs se sont ...

A wee place in the middle of India
Feb 1, 2006 (19 photos)

... only stayed a couple of days, but some people stay a lot longer, just to chill out. I've got a new German friend here who has started his own tour company--and he takes people to Orchha in between Varanasi and Agra; Orchha is his favorite place in India!

1st proper entry
Aug 21, 2008 (3 photos)

... us away- photos to come.  It is the most exquisit mausoleum imaginable.  Our next stop was Chanteri, a tiny townin rural India where the locals have only seen 'foreigners' a few times in their lives.  It was crazy but we really did feel ...

Getting away from it all
Feb 2, 2007 (17 photos)

... I was just recovering from so this looked like a good place to hang out for a few days whilst she recovered. Orchha is just a quiet little village with loads of temples and forts and various other buildings dotted about the landscape seemingly forgotten. ...

Moonrise
Jun 1, 2007 (12 photos)

Leaving Khajuraho we both didn't really feel like stopping in Orchha and almost went on directly to Agra. It would have been a mistake because as much as Khajuraho was a great surprise for me, Orchha was even better. It is a very small city and one thing ...

How's The Serenity...
Apr 22, 2009 (10 photos)

... shops and cars with a whole array of these cheap trinkets. Unlike the bustle of Varanasi and the tiny but touristy Khajuraho, Orchha was a sleepy little hamlet as yet untouched by the cynical hard sell of the big city. Tourists were largely ignored, with ...

Mughal arcitecture
Dec 12, 2006 (6 photos)

... ; They were mostly built by the Mughal's who were the Islamic invaders that wiped out the Chandela Dynasty in the North of India.  Orchha is not big on the tourist map so we had the place to ourselves to relax, explore the ruins and enjoy the views of ...

Of Temples and Palaces: Khajuraho, Orchha, Gwalior
Dec 9, 2008 (64 photos)

Of Temples and Palaces: Khajuraho, Orchha, Gwalior We took our first night train from Varanasi to Satna, an utterly unenjoyable experience as first we had to shoo someone out of one of our simple bunks and then Gine was stared at by a few of the male- ...

Palaces and Paintings
Jul 16, 2007

... bound for the train station. Having deposited our bags, and our Danes, we haggled our way by slowwww autorickshaw to Orchha. A quick and slightly unsatisfying lunch had to suffice for sustenance, and we headed for the palaces. Orchha was a capital ...

Forts of Madhya Pradesh
Jan 20, 2007

Stopped in the little town of Orchha, in the dusty plains of Madhya Pradesh in north central India. It was basically just a small village, with brightly painted cottages, lots of children saying hello then running away, and too many cows, set among several ...

Evocative decay
Jun 24, 2008 (9 photos)

Leaving Varanasi, I was seriously beginning to reconsider the prospect of spending so much time in India. Coming to Orchha, it was a great relief to discover that those levels of irritation aren't typical of the entire country. I guess if I can cope with ...

Old Capital
Apr 18, 2007 (3 photos)

... . He explained how he just met his fiancee and they were engaged to be amrried next year. We had a great time in Orchha and were sad to leave. Another degression. Whenever we are walking somewhere, in any city, Rickshaw and taxi drivers walk up with ...

A Medieval Fairytale Palace Hidden In The Forest
Aug 15, 2009 (109 photos)

... visit and where two stone elephants flank both sides with bells in their mouths before going to the cenotaphs which are tributes to Orchha's rulers. We met lots of kids on the way home and stuck temporary tattoos all over them. This day of adventure was ...

1st Oct Orchha
Oct 1, 2007

Orchha vai Jhansi on the train, camping.

Orchha
Oct 2, 2008 (18 photos)

... with a crazed look on his face.   The next morning we were to see some of the many palaces and temples that Orchha is famous for. In blistering 40deg heat we started at the Raj Mahal (King's Palace) which was an impressive place complete with ...