From morning to evening, the Udaipur Kairun Hotel sat until the city palace was once again brightly lit. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoGoodbye, beautiful white city - Udaipur. Udaipur → Khajuraho Train Booking Udaipur to Khajuraho Train Tickets: Train Number: 19666 / Car Class: 33 Third Class Air-conditioned Sleeper Car Berth.

1 side bunk, 1 side bunk, 1 bunk up, 1 lib in the middle of the trip: 1092 km ticket fee: 1310 yuan per person on average, 131 yuan Planned departure time: 22:20, planned arrival time: 19:45 the next day. It is estimated to take 21 hours and 25 minutes. Udaipur Udaipur railway station returned here from Bendi early this morning.

Came here again in the evening, ready to take the train to Khajuraho at ten o'clock. After entering the station, I saw an electronic screen hanging in the hall showing that the train that Xue Luo and Liu Jingshu were riding would depart at 22:20 sharp. Don't surprise too quickly, I don't think it's normal to see the bus start on time.

The 19666 train taken by Xueluo and Liu Jingshu at Udaipur Railway Station entered the station on time. The train runs from Udaipur to Khajuraho, and Xueluo and Liu Jingshu will sit from the starting point to the end point. On the list posted at the door of this third-class air-conditioned sleeper car, the names of Xueluo and Liu Jingshu were seen.

It turns out that it is quite reliable to book your train tickets with the websites of Indian ticket agencies. Udaipur → Khajuraho is the 20th day of travel to India, and the whole day is spent on the train to Khajuraho. The train left Udaipur on time at 10 o'clock last night, and the rest of the night was fine, and the fear of losing luggage on the train was quickly lowered.

I slept a lot more peacefully, and I didn't even bother to lock my luggage on the railing of the sleeper on the ground floor. Khajuraho is located east of Udaipur, but the train line does not pass directly, first detouring north to Jaipur, Agra, and then a large circle south to Khajuraho. On the way, there is no scenery to see outside the window, playing with mobile phones, sleeping, chatting, and sitting in a daze.

Various time-consuming modes are turned on. Arrived in Khajuraho at 10 o'clock in the evening, more than two hours late, and arrived smoothly by tuk-tuk from the pick-up station and checked into the booked hotel. Gyuraho is located in Madhya Pradesh, India. "Kragyuho" is the Indian word for "coconut", and it is said that there were many coconut trees here in the past, hence the name.

Although Khajuraho can only be considered a small township, tourists from all over the world flock to visit it, and even a civil airport has been built here because of the thousand-year-old temple complex that has been listed as a World Heritage Site.

The reason is that the buildings of these temple complexes have very exquisite human sculptures that can be called world-class architectural treasures, among which the sculptures with the theme of love are the most eye-catching. After the 5th century AD, a group of Rajputs established a small and powerful kingdom in the Banderekand region of India.

This is the Chandra dynasty that built a huge temple complex in Khajuraho. In the 9th~13th century, it was the capital of the Chandra dynasty. The kings of the Chandra dynasty began to build temples in 950 and built a total of 85 temples over the past 100 years. These unique styles of architecture, especially those sculptures that integrate religious, secular, love and other themes into one.

It reached its peak in 950~1050 A.D. and is a witness to Indian civilization in the 10th century. Of the 85 Brahmanical Hindu and Jain temples built during the Chandra period, 25 remain to this day, most of them were built in their heyday, and are now spread over a 6-square-kilometre radius of Khajuraho.

The 22 existing ancient temples in Khajuraho are divided into three parts: the west temple group, the east temple group and the south temple group, of which the west temple group has the largest number of temples and the largest concentration. What made Khajuraho famous all over the world and made it one of India's most important travel destinations is the religious buildings with sculptures of the image of love in the western temple complex.

These buildings are the representative and essence of the ancient religious architecture of Khajuraho. The eastern temple complex is mainly Jain architecture, and the sculptures on the buildings are depicted with images of the three main Hindu gods: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. There are three main temples in the South Temple Group, which were built in the 11th century, and the architectural art is obviously in a period of decline compared with the heyday.

Khajuraho area mapKhajuraho railway station was delayed by more than two hours and arrived at Khajuraho railway station at around 10 pm. Khajuraho is not a city, except for the ancient temples and the countryside, so the train station is also very small. From here, it is about 8 kilometers to reach the hotel that Xueluo and Liu Jingshu booked near the West Temple.

The tuk-tuk ran all the way in the dark of night, and soon arrived. Khajuraho Day Trip Today is the 21st day of your trip to India. In the morning, visit the West Temple Complex, and in the afternoon, visit the Benna Wildlife Sanctuary. Khajuraho. Khajuraho Marble Palace Hotel Snow Fall and Liu Jingshu booked a small hotel in Khajuraho.

The white three-story building to the right of the green house in the photo. Booked a so-called "Deluxe Room" for two nights. Rates are paid in cash at 1100 per room per day. The location of the hotel is an advantage, just a short distance to the east of the West Temple. It is a small hotel with a total of 9 rooms on three floors. Due to the material of the floor, a higher grade white marble was chosen.

Hence the name "Marble Palace Hotel". The room area is about 15 square meters, independent toilet and bathroom, hot water is good, relatively clean, quiet, free, but the signal in the room is not good. A simple Western breakfast is served at the rooftop restaurant. It is about 8 km from the railway station.

Khajuraho, the interior of the Marble Palace Hotel in Khajuraho, India, is about 100 yuan for a standard room, and the cost performance is OK. Khajuraho Marble Palace Hotel wakes up at 6 a.m. and goes upstairs for breakfast. Standard western breakfast, slices of bread, omelette, coffee.

Khajuraho Marble Palace Hotel stands on the roof terrace and looks west, you can see a relatively large Indian temple - Maharaja Temple, which is located on the east side of the scenic spot. The two pagodas exposed at the back of the Maharaja temple are the buildings in the scenic area of the West Temple Group.

On the south side of Khajuraho Marble Palace Hotel is a large parking lot where some vehicles are parked and there are also regular shuttle buses that stop here. There are many small shops and restaurants on both sides of the road on the south side of the parking lot. I don't know where to get to Khajuraho on a long-distance bus. This trip to India is 30 days, and the journey is basically by train.

I haven't tried the taste of an Indian bus. Standing on the roof of the hotel, I saw the little girl from the family next door standing on the roof reading her textbooks carefully, and it seemed that Indian students were also very tight on their spare time. There is also a girl in this family who is memorizing homework, is it close to the exam, so many students who endorse it. Locals chatting downstairs.

An old man resting against the courtyard wall. The skin is so tanned. The children of the old people play in the yard by themselves. Maybe the parents went out to work, leaving the grandfather at home to watch the little grandson. Women washing clothes. The man sat next to him reading the newspaper. After breakfast, take advantage of the fact that the West Temple is still open for a period of time, and go for a walk on the street.

This is the entrance to the Hindu temple I just saw upstairs, Maharaja. A small inn on the street, with a restaurant on the roof. This restaurant is a designated cafeteria for Xue Luo and Liu Jingshu. A small hotel on the side of the street leaning on a red triangular plum looks very clean. A woman who sells groceries at a stall. Peas, cucumbers, ginger, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, peppers.

They are all familiar dishes. The family of schoolgirls walking down the street pulled a cart with two babies who didn't seem to be able to walk, as well as a baby's shaker and toys. There were two boys walking in front of the car, one jingling the bell and the other beating the drum. Behind the cart was a group of half-grown children - all girls.

Further on, a number of women dressed in colored saris followed. The men walked towards the Hindu temple. Maybe it's here to repay the wish - this family may have given birth to a boy, Xueluo thought. There is a small lake near the town, the water is slightly polluted, and some women wash their clothes by the lake.

As mentioned earlier, the visitors who come to Khajuraho come to see the temple to see the sculptures, and most of its essence is concentrated in the buildings of the West Temple Group Scenic Area. Entrance fee: 250 West Temple Group Scenic Map Copyright Khajuraho Day Tour First Attraction.

West Temple Group. This is the ticket office, next to the entrance. Ticket window. The sign reads: 250 for foreigners and 10 for Indians. Audio guide: English 100 wood with Chinese; additional headphones: 50; headphone covers 20, shoe covers 30. Xueluo is responsible for buying tickets, which cost 250 per person.

The snow falls hard. Walking into the West Temple Scenic Area, the first thing you see is the southernmost group of buildings, there are three in total, that is, the first one from the left: the Wallahashna Temple, the second Lakshmi Shishna Temple from the left, and the largest one from the right is the Lakshmana Temple.

In the photo, the second temple from the right with a small flag on the top of the Matangiswara temple is a Hindu temple located on the outside of the scenic wall, which is closed to the public because it is still used by believers. Lakshmishna Temple left with Wallahashna Temple. Lakshmi and Warraha are a husband and wife.

Therefore, they are enshrined here side by side. They are Vishnu, the famous protector god of Hinduism, and his wife, Lakshmi, who is known as the auspicious goddess. The Wallahashna Temple is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu. Inside is a large boar covered in intricately carved boars.

Since it is a temple of Vishnu, why is it dedicated to a wild boar? It turns out that this wild boar is one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu - Valaha. In Hindu mythology, it is said that when a demon named Biranik dragged the earth into the sea, Vishnu dived into the sea in the form of a wild boar, Varaha, and duel him for a thousand years and killed him.

Then he pulls up the earth with his fangs. The Wallahashna temple is not large, rectangular in shape inside, and is supported by stone pillars on all sides. The whole building is like a pavilion, and the pavilion umbrella part on top of each other is layered, which is very thick and powerful. In the center of the rectangular pond recessed in the temple, a large stone sculpture of a wild boar in red sandstone is placed.

On the raised pig's mouth, there is an image of the god Vishnu, indicating that the boar is Varaha, the incarnation of Vishnu. Hence the name of the temple. The Warahashna temple can be clearly seen from the side, and the entire boar is carved with very delicate statues of Lord Vishnu, large and small.

The somewhat broken statue of the snaketail beneath him was the demon Biranik who had been killed by Valahar and had dragged the earth into the sea. Next to Bilanik there are stone carvings of the feet of two Vishnus. The Varahashna temple boar is covered with stone statues of Vishnu that stretch all the way to the pig's face and legs.

Relief of the head of a wild boar in the temple of Wallahashna. Using the structure of the pig's face, the statue of the god and the flower ornament are carved. Vishnu statue on the pig's leg of the Wallahashna Temple. The most delicate thing about the Wallahashna temple is the dense small statues of the pigs, which are very delicately carved, properly proportioned, and exposed.

The feet of Lord Vishnu at the Wallahashna Temple. The temple dedicated to the auspicious goddess of Lakshmishna is very small and basically a pagoda. There are some flower reliefs on the tower, and there is nothing else to see. The Lakshmana Temple is an important temple in the Khajuraho temple complex.

It took 20 years to build in 954, which is 1,000 years old and is the best-preserved of the ancient temple complex in Khajuraho. On the outside of the building, there are many vivid and perfectly shaped reliefs involving figures, elephants and war horses, among which there are some reliefs on the theme of the love of characters, which have attracted wide attention and amazement throughout India and even the world.

This is the east side of the temple. The Lakshmana Temple Temple sits on a rectangular pedestal of about 30×25 meters, with a high tower temple in the center, surrounded by a small tower at each of the four corners, and the five towers echo each other to form a Sumeru-like structure. On the body of the five towers and the upper part of the base, there are exquisite red sandstone carvings.

The interior of the main pagoda originally enshrined a stone statue of Vishnu. This is the north side of the temple. Lakshmana Temple: This is the western side of the temple. The upper part of the main tower of the Lakshimana temple is covered with extremely fine sandstone carvings. It is not easy for thousands of years of relief carvings to be preserved to their current appearance.

During the centuries of Mughal rule in India, Islamic rulers ordered the destruction of Hindu buildings. The building material for the temple is said to have been taken from the yellow sandstone of the Panna Quarry, 40 km south of Khajuraho, which is delicate in texture, pleasing in color, moderately soft and hard, and very strong after molding, suitable for carving.

The upper part of the main tower of the Lakshmana temple is a parquet relief, and the lower part is a human portrait, including a combination of a god and a fairy and a sacred beast. The reliefs around the terrace of the main tower are particularly delicate and ornate. The Lakshmana temple is layered with intricate relief patterns.

So many elements are mixed and matched, from design to production, and they are also objects from thousands of years ago, with simple tools, so beautifully made, worthy of being a world-class art treasure. The relief above the terrace of the Lakshimana Temple, with a row of figures in the middle is vivid and dynamic.

The parquet relief on the sub-tower of the Lakshimana temple is made of a combination of yellow sandstone and red sandstone, which is extremely finely made, like a jade carving. The lotus-shaped stone carving on the main tower of the Lakshimana Temple. Stone statue of Vishnu on his body.