Out into the countryside and off to Orchha

Despite originally intending to go to Bodagaya, train timetable impossibilities (we found out the night before that trains dont run on a Friday despite being told they do) lead us to a change of plan and so we went in the opposite direction off to a place called Orchha.

So we took a 2pm night train from Varanasi to Jhansi which took fourteen hours, and this time we only arrived an hour behind schedule. From Jhansi we took a motor-rickshaw about 18 kilometres. Several people had mentioned this place along our travels and we were glad to have gone. Its a lovely little village out in the countryside where there are some well preserved palaces and temples, and the best thing of all is that were not hassled once!! It was a very refreshing break from the constant bombardment (bombardeo) of people offering you souvenirs, drinks, taxi rides that we have experienced up to now.

We spent the night there in a simple little guesthouse that was fine until breakfast as there seems to have been a a plague of flies and we could only eat breakfast with one hand while the other was used for waving a napkin (servieta) to distract them. So after a day and a nightthere, we headed back to Jhansi to head off on the next trip.