This is for sure the best part of our trip in India...
Orchha is a nice village in northern Madhya Pradesh, near to Jhansi, where it's possible to enjoy a close and deep contact with nature and real rural indian life. We chose to stay at "Friends of Orchha", an ONG which focuses on establishing a cultural link between western tourists and local indian families, getting the two in contact by living together and sharing food and experiences. I will highly recommend this kind of accomodation, to get off the tourist track and instead try how to live like common indian villagers.
At Orchha, we have visited the main historycal and architectural beauties of this little jewel along the Betwa river, including Jahangir Mahal, Raj Mahal and the astonishing temples of Chaturbuj, Ram Raja and Lakshminarayan Mandir, my favourite one, with gorgeous paintings depicting stories from the Mahabharata.
We wished our time there would never have passed...
