08/03/2010
Emer and I got up just before midday to see the Temples here in Khajuraho, it was 250 rupis to enter but the locals pay only 20 rupies, this is the case all over India for any heritage site foreigners have to pay at least 1000% more. The security there also took my tripod because it could be mistaken for a gun of some kind, meh, whatever.
Anyways, the temples here in the western part of town were really spectactular, so much detail went into the craftsmanship and it was nice to see green grass and pretty flowers as most of what I had seen of
Khajuraho was the place where Kama-Sutra was first though out so all the temples had thousand year old erotic images that were certainly entertaining as some of the carvings involved animals and lets say horses and elephants were really loved here.
We wondered around the temples for most of the morning and into the afternoon then went for lunch at some random place where we met a nice local who was willing to take us about the part of town where he lived. We were not sure whether he was being genuinely nice or part of a scam but he seemed nice enough so we followed him.
He took us around and showed us various small temples then to a school where I was asked to be teacher for a while, it was good fun, quite rewarding and kids were great although the girls in the class did not say a word.
The principal thanked us for our participation and our tour guide ‘Vejew’ took us back to his shop where I felt obligated to purchase something, I found a wicked silver ring for $10 of a female performing oral sex on a man; well suited for the place.
After a short rest back in our hotel Emer and I set off again to meet Vejew for dinner, he took us across the road from his shop where the prices were not so bad but he thanked us for taking him out for dinner but this was not our intention. He ordered a much pricier meal on the menu that Emer and I ended up paying for, although he did give us some whisky for the meal.
The conversation was very confusing, one sided and argumentative and as it turns out he is a 25 year old virgin so whatever he said didn’t matter in any way or form. Anyways he turned out to be a bit of a twat, but he did invite us over to his shop in the morning for breakfast.
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