Sanchi, India Travel Blogs

Agra to Varanasi - our first train experience
Sep 23, 2009 (3 photos)

We are on the thirteen hour long train from Agra to Varanasi having boarded at 23.30 and found that our supposed beds of 2 up 2 down, was in fact 2 up 1 down and 1 down across the passage. This was due to a rather large Indian male sleeping like the ...

Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh
Feb 21, 2007

A 1.5 hour bus ride from Bhopal to Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh.

Super Stupa's and much more
Feb 3, 2007 (21 photos)

... a market in town, only small but with fod. We bought tickets to visit the Bhuddist temples and Stupa's on a hill above Sanchi. It's a very interesting place with lots of stuff all over the hillside, temples, Stupa's and various other ruins. It was used ...

One stop too many
Feb 10, 2006 (3 photos)

Orccha is another small village in Madhha Pradesh, with an old palace and some temples. It is on the way back from Khajurao so we decided to stop. Although the palace was good, complete with several very ugly vultures nesting on the top, we had ...

coffee Orcha?
Jan 19, 2007

       

Escaping to Zen and tribal tranquility
Mar 6, 2006 (5 photos)

... the outside din and found the right bus to Sanchi, bumping along the terrible roads but at least there were signs of resurfacing. Sanchi is a small village about 2 hours drive away from Bhopal. On the hill above the streets is one of the most important ...

Anyone seen the mosque?
Mar 5, 2006

... , but he didn't understand me.... then I looked up and saw the enormous towering minarets of one of the largests mosques in India. Now used as a religious madrassa (school), I saw from the courtyard (no-one else was there) a learning session of young buys ...

Sanchi
Jan 1, 1983

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Vidisha
Jan 2, 1983

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The Taj
Dec 4, 2009 (12 photos)

After a fairly horrific 14 hour bus ride we arrived in Agra at 7:30am.  Dave and I were stuffed in a 3x5 foot capsule and expected to sleep.  It's really taken our friendship to the next level.  I think at one stage I was using his leg as a ...

sanchi
Aug 1, 2008 (3 photos)

Em Sanchi fica as primeiros monumentos budistas feito pelo Ashoka. (Rei q se converteu e espalhou o budismo na India). Dizem que sao os melhores monumentos budistas da india. esperava mais... na epoca q a stupa (essa meia bola) foi feita eles ainda ...