Kajuraho: Kama Sutra Temples

Wow, what a great place! And this doesn't have any sexual connotation, I swear! Kajuraho was a great surprise, specially after Lumbini. We thought this would also be a place in the middle of nowhere with no infrastructure, but we got really impressed by the town itself!

We're staying in the nice hotel since our trip started for very little money! Since we arrived with 4 other people and needed 4 rooms, the guys gave us a super discount and we ended up only paying 250 Rupees (something like 4 euros) for a very pleasant room with the cleanest toilet we've seen in India and cable TV (no matter by the fact that 99% of the channels are in Hindi). They have a nice restaurant, good value food, yoga and massage sessions - which Joao tried yesterday and liked very much - and the staff is so nice and friendly we wish we could stay here longer and simply rest. Which will be not possible, since our time is starting to become short.

Well, what to say about the temples? They are amazing! Forget everything you've seen about medieval art: this thing really rocks!!! The art is amazing to see, even independently of the fact that we're talking about sexual sculptures! The complex where the major temples are is simply gorgeous and one could spend hours just admiring the beauty of them! :)

Now let's talk about sex. Nobody really knows what these illustrations might represent. What are the sexual images really for? Some say it was made in honor of a Goddess who had kinda "voyeur" habits, others that they represent Tantra and the balance between bodily pleasure and spiritual tranquility, others say that they reflect the society of that time. Really?! Amazing to relate them with actual India, where women have to cover their bodies and have no rights, where men seem to have fun only when they are among themselves and sexuality seems to have died long, long ago.

Yes, I made a lot of pictures, so all you guys who want to see them can just come to have a coffee with us in our apartment as soon as we get home! The sexual positions are amazing, and sometimes it's hard to figure out where a body stops and the other one starts. How creative those artists were! Interestingly, the temples are not only made of sexual sculptures, but also... surprise!... sculptures representing war. Lonely Planet says that people who built those temples were making war every time they were not inventing new, strange sexual positions... ;) Let's make love, not war, guys, they seem to say.

We can't avoid thinking about the Englishman who found the temples in the middle of the forest one hundred years ago! I hope he wasn't a conservative gu y! :)

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Concerning your comments on our Facebook page(s): No, we didn't try them yet, but even if we do, I don't really believe a normal human body would be capable of doing that all!