Temple Carvings in Khajuraho

Khajuraho is a little town with a large selection of amazingly intricately carved temples. As you can probably see, a lot of the temples have carvings of people in all sorts of interesting positions. I was told that these carvings were education for children.

Surrounding the main temple group were beautiful gardens full of pretty flowers, all sorts of birds, mongoose (who were very shy) and tiny squirrels (who looked to be having the best fun climbing and jumping over the temples and their carvings).

I spent a day exploring some of the local villages and finding some near by mountains. The view from the top went on for miles, but the climb up could have been easier had we been following a path and had I perhaps been waring more appropriate shoes than my flip flops.

I found a huge river full of boulders where a man was fishing. He was floating through the water, setting out his net, whilst sitting in what looked like the inner tube of a tractor tire. This could have been quite enjoyable for him and indeed he did seem happy, but he informed me gleefully that there were crocodiles in the river - something that had I been him I would have been more than a little anxious about.