Hotel Khajuraho Ashok

... it, I switched tables and starting<br>trying to sell it to him - to much hilarity! Then produced another even<br>nicer bag - bargain price under a fiver and I also got him to throw in<br>a free purse. Had no money left after clothes and bangles shopping so<br>he said take them and I come round later and get the money.<br> <br>So yep 6 o'clock on the dot he<br>appeared, had a chai and a chat still trying to sell me a bloody scarf!<br>Wasn't going to work ...

... was actually a stagnant cess pit, the boys working there were a little bit too attentive and the owner was a Baba who thought he was the re-incarnation of Osho. We did have a fan though so we could beat the heat and dry our clothes and we scavenged a couple of his OSHO World magazines on the way out which made up for their overpriced pizza. We had done a deal for a room with a television and asked that the staff bring us one so we could watch BBC news and see what is going on in the ...

... a horse had been prepared for his final few minutes to the bride's home. I assured him he had nothing to worry about, as his new wife was quite beautiful (neither had seen the other before, not even a photograph). Similarly, I returned to the bride and assured her that she was marrying a very handsome chap (which he was). The girls giggled and wanted to include me in all their final preparations. I made a donation to a couple of guys who were taking donations for ...

... d * good time *nd perh*ps I'd like to p*y him * tip. The requests bec*me very frequent *s we ne*red the l*nding *re*. This w*s definitely * once-in-*-lifetime experience of hum*n bodily endur*nce. I wouldn't im*gine the consumption of poison would be *ny e*sier to endure th*n immersion in this septic c*uldron of de*dly broth.<br><br>My trip continued on the motorbike, visiting the loc*l Durg* temple, built in the 700s *nd red-ochre st*ined. Security is now, underst*nd*bly ...

... like a desert. We see mesquite trees and other desert type plants. The houses in the villages are mostly low rounded mud structures. Every village has its well with a hand pump and each one is occupied with women filling earthenware or brass jugs that they fill up and carry back to their homes on their heads. Also at the wells are groups of children pouring water over themselves to cool off, some are washing the road dust off their bodies ...

... along the road. The drive is also interrupted by frequent toll booths and tax stations. Every time you come to a reasonably nice stretch of road you can be sure that there is a toll booth ahead. Sometimes we are paying a toll every 5 or 6 miles. Whenever you cross from one state to another you have to pay a tax to enter the new state. You know that you are coming up to one of these stations when you see hundreds of brightly ...

... all included. They were not covered in sexual carvings as had been implied, but interestingly they included the erotic carvings alongside many other depictions of day to day life. I must say, there were certainly some mind-boggling carvings that had us twisting our heads around ridiculously trying to count limbs!<br><br>As the afternoon drew on we headed back to the room, before enjoying dinner across the road at a "homemade pasta" restaurant.

... with metal trays with candles that had been lit by the people below. There were a few musicians playing on the side singing and what seemed to be the overseer wearing only a loincloth covered in dust and strings of beads. It was cool to sit and watch for a while. The next day was the Kite Festival and the entire town took off from work and school to fly these paper kites. I tried flying one and they are super hard to get up in the air so I was really impressed by how many ...

... Des partouses, des scènes zoophiles ! La totale ! Je me demande vraiment comment ont réagit les premiers Indiens en découvrant cela ! Eux qui ont une vie sexuelle si cachée et leur femmes voilées ! Il paraît que ceux qui ont construit les temples pensaient que pour atteindre le nirvana il fallait assouvir les désirs primaires dont sexuel pour le côté physique et la pratique du yoga pour le côté spirituel. Les sculptures nous ont vraiment impressionnées ! Quelle recherche dans les ...

... but Tony made it very clear he would not go out that evening with me if I wore that. We hitched a ride from Rajendra for the performance, our new buddy. He works at the hotel, and he is that guy who knows everybody in town and books all the tourist things. Of course, he is skimming some off the top, but we've come to learn that is how it works around here. No price is final, and we are starting to get very good at negotiating. Sometimes we say "I need it lower," sometimes we say ...