We went to Orchha fully expecting to relax and experience a hassle free time and thankfully this came true.
If you know us, well you’ll be aware that we rather enjoy a good ruin or site of historical significance, and that's exactly what we got.
For such a small town, in fact it’s probably a village—the population is around 8000—it has an unbelievable amount of massive historical monuments. To try and get some scale across, imagine a small town in the english countryside—you know the one, with just a couple of pubs—that has; two castles the size of the Tower of London, St Paul’s cathedral, a building about ⅔ the size of Westminster Abbey and a huge graveyard with six or seven tombs as big as your average church, you get the picture.
We also love nature and birds and we had a treat of seeing some Griffon Vultures nesting on one of these historical monuments.
We loved this place, it ticked all the right boxes.
After five enjoyable and relaxing days, we went off to Gwalior for a couple of days to see the Fort there, as this was on the way to Agra, nice enough too and saw some interesting Jain (religion) carvings some of which were 20 metres tall.
Then the highlight so far in India for us, off to Agra to see the Taj Mahal.
Now Agra isn’t all that nice to be honest but wow, the Taj Mahal is the most beautiful monument we have ever seen and we’ve seen some amazing monuments in Europe. To say that the pictures don’t do it justice is an understatement. Quite frankly we were in awe of the size of it (it’s bigger than you think) and the amount of detail and decoration throughout. There are not that many places we would rush to see again but this is one.
Sadly, Ludwig wasn’t allowed in and he had to spend a few hours in a locker, poor Ludwig!
We finally tore ourselves away after a few hours to visit the Fort but it was a bit of an anticlimax after the Taj (maybe do them the other way around if you come), still, we rounded off the day nicely. We met a couple of guys from Devon back at our hotel and enjoyed a few beers with them.
We next went to Faterphur Sikri the following day to see the Fort there, you can see a recurring theme now I bet. This one had more to offer than Agra we thought but the young lads--kids really--running around the place were the most annoying we've come across so far.
Next stop Rajasthan!
Orchha
Gwalior
The Taj Mahal
If you know us, well you’ll be aware that we rather enjoy a good ruin or site of historical significance, and that's exactly what we got.
For such a small town, in fact it’s probably a village—the population is around 8000—it has an unbelievable amount of massive historical monuments. To try and get some scale across, imagine a small town in the english countryside—you know the one, with just a couple of pubs—that has; two castles the size of the Tower of London, St Paul’s cathedral, a building about ⅔ the size of Westminster Abbey and a huge graveyard with six or seven tombs as big as your average church, you get the picture.
We also love nature and birds and we had a treat of seeing some Griffon Vultures nesting on one of these historical monuments.
We loved this place, it ticked all the right boxes.
After five enjoyable and relaxing days, we went off to Gwalior for a couple of days to see the Fort there, as this was on the way to Agra, nice enough too and saw some interesting Jain (religion) carvings some of which were 20 metres tall.
Then the highlight so far in India for us, off to Agra to see the Taj Mahal.
Now Agra isn’t all that nice to be honest but wow, the Taj Mahal is the most beautiful monument we have ever seen and we’ve seen some amazing monuments in Europe. To say that the pictures don’t do it justice is an understatement. Quite frankly we were in awe of the size of it (it’s bigger than you think) and the amount of detail and decoration throughout. There are not that many places we would rush to see again but this is one.
Sadly, Ludwig wasn’t allowed in and he had to spend a few hours in a locker, poor Ludwig!
We finally tore ourselves away after a few hours to visit the Fort but it was a bit of an anticlimax after the Taj (maybe do them the other way around if you come), still, we rounded off the day nicely. We met a couple of guys from Devon back at our hotel and enjoyed a few beers with them.
We next went to Faterphur Sikri the following day to see the Fort there, you can see a recurring theme now I bet. This one had more to offer than Agra we thought but the young lads--kids really--running around the place were the most annoying we've come across so far.
Next stop Rajasthan!
Orchha
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| In the next series of Dr Seuss, Turret, Turret, Ludwig. |
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| Women shaped into an Elepahnt |
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| A Nilgai |
Gwalior
The Taj Mahal
