Khajuraho Temples Gallery
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South elevation, Vishvanath temple.
This
temple is typical of the Khajuraho style:
built on a platform it shares with a
Nandi shrine, it has an ardh-mandap, a
mandap, a maha-mandap, an antaral
and a garba griha with an ambulatory.
Its outer fapade has the traditional three
bands of sculpture
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Early October brought a pleasant
nip in the air, and hubby and I decided to herald the autumn with a pleasure
trip. We excitedly contacted our friends from itraveller and chalked out
a long weekend trip to Khajuraho and Orccha, in the heart of Incredible
India, i.e. Madhya Pradesh. Luckily, we got the last few tickets on the
to and fro trains, since we had planned a trip on the festive weekend of
Dusshera. Our trip started on Oct 8th, when we boarded the Dakshin Express
from Nizamuddin Rly Station (New Delhi) to Jhansi. We reached early morning
at Jhansi and took a Tata Indica cab to our next stop - Khajuraho. The
car-ride was pleasant with a panoramic view of fields and the Vindhya range
of mountains, and the occasional streams and rivulets.
The road is bumpy, and a
three hour drive can take upto 4-5 hrs. One interesting aspect of this
car-ride was the need to change taxis - because Jhansi is in Uttar Pradesh
and a UP taxi would have had to pay additional toll tax. So, clever taxi
drivers have mutual agreements to save cross-state toll tax, and at a tea-stopover
near Chattarpur, we were hauled into an MP-license plate bearing taxi,
that had transported a tourist from Khajuraho, who in turn was shifted
into the UP cab, to be shuttled back to Jhansi. more....
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