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Orchha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Orchha, India
Flying Lizards
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... and 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 ...
Orchha - a hidden gem
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
More Forts and Palaces and Stuff...
This is a top pick! ... . Finally, after getting stuck in a no-where-ville called Bharatpur, we bailed out and headed down to Orchha. The one good thing that came out of all this is sitting around and waiting in train stations is the photography ...
Sagar, and Army Life. .
This is a top pick! ... 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!
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 13th, 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 ...
Jo ORCHHA
... 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 ...
Monumental Burnout
The pace of our sightseeing caught up to us in Orchha. Dan still couldn't eat, and the heat reaching into the high 30s compounded our weakness and fatigue. Our thoughts were more with our air-con room with a full window view of Chaturbhuj temple and ...
Train Tales and Beautiful Orchha
... 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
... 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 ...
Orchha
Orchha was the capital of India in the 16th century but its now just ruins. To get there we took the train. Our guide said the train was from 8.35 - 10.45, 1hour 45mins! Me and Sy noticed, I don't know if anyone else noticed. All our luggage was taken for ...
Moving forward
... 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. ...
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... it was a pretty little town with no touts. It's a pretty little town with relatively few touts. People don't really say much about Orchha and really there is very little else you could say about it. If you ever get the the chance to come here, I probably ...
Fattybumbum smashes a bed
... 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, ...
Voor het eerst een berichtje van Dick
... de wekker om 5 uur, zodat we om 6 uur bij de ingang konden staan. T was het allemaal waard!!! Nu zitten we in Orchha, een bijzonder gezellig plaatsje volgebouwd met tempels ruines en een enorm fort. Het lijkt wel Frankrijk! Al deze gebouwen zijn ca. 700 ...
Orchha
... 's 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 ...
A wee place in the middle of India
... 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 ...
A Whole Lot of Nothing
... government price was actually 10 rupees each. That was 5 (or is it 6?) days ago, and we've been blissfully enveloped by Orchha's relative peace and quiet ever since. A small town that was formerly the seat of a small empire several hundred years ...
Livet på første klasse
... korrenspodanse plasserte jeg meg sammen med baggen i baksetet på en rickshaw og kom meg til Agra stasjon hvor India Railways skulle frakte meg videre til Jhansi og Orchha. På stasjonen fant jeg ut at toget var hele to timer forsinket, og det var ...
1st proper entry
... 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
... as 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 ...
How's The Serenity...
... 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
... . 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 ...
A great shave, some ruins, papu, nasty train ride
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. ...
Of Temples and Palaces: Khajuraho, Orchha, Gwalior
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 ...
Palaces and Paintings
... 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 ...
Shiva Rama wedding in Orchha
Mo's Entry Finally we decided to take a vacation from our vacation and wanted to go to Orchha. A lovely quiet, off the beaten track kind of place. We continued to travel with our two Aussies friends, Jess and Dan and arranged to travel ...