4 nice places

Sanchi

In the end we were Omkareshwar five days. Is a quiet place where there are western tourism but not much. The local people are very nice in general. We are dedicated to stroll through the town, visiting the various ghats and cross the bridges linking the vilage area with the island to turn around visiting some other temple. The most beautiful for me is that it is located at the southern end, a ruined temple but in good condition.
After Omkareshwar went to Sanchi, a small quiet town known for having one of the oldest Buddhist monuments in India. There are a group of stupas, temples and monasteries, but what is best preserved are three stupas which stands out is the biggist one with four doors which support a carved porches with stories of the previous lives of the Buddha. It’s wonderful to see the sunrise from the ruins of the temple located east of the Great Stupa. Especially now that it’s cold, because around the town is filled with fields of crops from which emerges a thick fog every morning, creating an incredible spectacle. Here we were lucky to arrive on Thursday and enjoy the view of the market with all the people doing the shopping while the cows is waiting every time, when the seller doesn’t take attention fot them, to eat some fresh vegetables, not without taking after hitting strongly, but is that in this world everything has a price.
The next place was Orcha, a town where I was nine years ago. At that time it was a quiet place with a few tourists, but it has become a tourist attraction and figure even within the circuits of the tour operators. actually there were about three guest house before, but now there are more than twenty, apart from a couple of luxury resorts for people arriving by bus doing a tour of 10 or 15 days in India. However this place is still a pretty town with a fortress where there two palaces and several old buildings and lots of temples scattered around the village where one stands out a promontory large temple, it’s still not the most important but draw the skyline of this place along with palaces and cenotaphs or memorials located at south along the river.
Finally before arriving in Bodhgaya, which is where I’m writing now, go through Chitrakoot, a place where pilgrims come to bathe in the river water that wets the ghats of this place, here you can see many beggars asking for money or food. They take advantage the influx of local people coming for religious reasons. On the bank of the river there are full of temples, but also they spread through the streets for the vilage where the atmosphere is more relaxed and people is greeting all the time.
In summary, the four villages we have been, for one reason or another, are good places to stay for a few days. Yet I can not say much about Bodhgaya. Since we arrived yesterday and we have still time to make a visit as it should, for the moment I can only say that it is quite touristy but also very peaceful and it is easier to find tibetan food than indian. In the next post I will try to give a little more information about this place.