Khajuraho MP

Place : Khajurahu MP India

Best time to visit : Oct to Feb

State : Madhya Pradesh

Nearest airport : Khajuraho (Flights from Delhi india).
Bhopal : It is around 300 KM from bhopal by road. 

Train station :
Jhanshi (State UP around 100KM. Lots of train run from Delhi to Jhanshi. best one will be Shatabdi and Rajdhani express both takes around 5 hours from Delhi) .
Satna (State -MP around 90KM from here. there are 2-3 trains from delhi one is Rewa express which takes around 12 hours from delhi and it is over night journey. try this if you want to see rural india by train). You can hire taxi from here for travelling Khajuraho.

Town : This town is very less populated around 20,000. The down is totally dependent of tourism. Local people are either working in agriculture or associated with travel industry. People mostly speaks Hindi but with English you can survive here and there are guide who speaks german, janapnese, spanish also. Good place to buy Indian traditional art work.

History

   In the 27th centuary of Kali yuga the Mlechcha invaders started attacking North India some Bargujar Rajputs moved towards east to central India,they ruled over North-Eastern region of Rajasthan called Dhundhar and were refered to as Dhundhel/Dhundhela in ancient times, for the region they governed. Later on they called themselves Bundelas and Chandelas those who were in the ruling class having gotra Kashyap were definately all Bargujars they were vassals of Gurjara - Pratihara empire of North India which lasted from 500 C.E. to 1300 C.E. and was at its peak when major monuments were built.The Bargujars also built the Kalinjar fort and Neelkanth Mahadev temple similar to one at Sariska National Park and Baroli, being Shiva worshipers. The city was the cultural capital of Chandela Rajputs, a Hindu dynasty that ruled this part of India from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Political capital of Chandelas was Kalinjar. The Khajuraho temples were built over a span of 200 years, from 950 to 1150. The Chandela capital was moved to Mahoba after this time, but Khajuraho continued to flourish for some time. Khajuraho has no forts because the Chandel Kings never lived in their cultural capital.
List of temples and details

Sequence	Modern name	Original Deity	Note
1	Chausath Yogini	64 Yoginis	Est 9th c.
2	Brahma	Brahma	Eastern group
3	Lalgun Mahadev	Shiva	Contemp to 2
4	Matangeshwar	Shiva	In active worship
5	Varaha	Varaha
6	Lakshman	Vaikuntha Vishnu	Lakshavarma Inscription
7	Parshvanath	Adinath	Pahil inscription 954 AD, Jain Compound
8	Vishvanath	Shiva	Dhanga inscription Sam 1059
9	Devi Jagadambi	Initially Vishnu but today Parvati
10	Chitragupta	Surya
11	Kandariya Mahadeva	Shiva	Largest
12	Vamana	Vamana	Eastern Group
13	Adinath	Jina	Jain compound
14	Jawari	Vishnu	Eastern group
15	Chaturbhuja	Vishnu	Southern
16	Duladeo	Shiva	South end
17	Ghantai	Jina	Only some columns remaining

Near by attractions :

Panna tiger national park : This is around 50 KM from Khajuraho. It is famous for tiger reserve and It is only place in India where we mine Diamond. There is one fall which you can visit.

Chattarpur Temple : This is around 40KM from this place and the temple is very old and famous for diamonds on the god. this temple opens at morning 6 AM to night 9 PM.

Bandhavbadh National park. I will recommand to visit this national park with 2 days forest camp. This is one of finest national park in india and you can see tigers in the forest by sitting top of the elephant.

Pachmarhi :  (Hindi: पचमड़ी) is a hill station in Madhya Pradesh state of central India, also known for the Pachmarhi Cantonment. It is widely known as "Satpura ki Rani" (Queen of Satpura), situated at a height of 1000 m in a valley of the Satpura Range in Hoshangabad district. The highest point in the central India region and the Vindhya and Satpura range; Dhupgarh at 1,350 m is located here.

Check out these few snaps from Khajuraho temple

Main temple :

These all temples are few minutes’ walk from hotel. You can take taxi or manual taxi (It will be driven by manual pedalling) and it is very cheap.

Temple 2:
 This temple is in front of main temples and the design of this temple is different. These all temples are made thousand years back.

This temple is around 10 km far from main temples:

Jain Temple in Khajuraho

Sunset snap from one of the temple:
This is small river near to one of the southern temple.

Another sunset snap:

Bhimbetka : Thousands years old memories of human kind.

Location : Bhimbetka , (Bhopal)

How to reach : 30 kms from Bhopal, easily accessible by road.

Best time to visit : Oct - Feb

Other places which you can visit: Sanchi, Bhopal lakes, colar dam, Tajul masjid, Bharat bhavan some more eco tourism places near to Bhopal.

Bhimbetka is having 130 rock shelters….Biggest repository of prehistoric art in India. Continuous habitation from the Early Stone Age…." One of the earliest dwellings of human beings, Bhimbetka will take you back to the history 35000 years old. In fact, the place has witnessed a cultural sequences right from the late stone age to the early historic period. The pre historic caves which are in true sense "the portal to the ancient gallery of Bhimbetka" preserves some fascinating paintings dating back to Paleolithic times.
They had lived here for one hundred millennium and had created their own stone floors, left behind hand-axes, cleavers, scrapers to remove flesh and fat from the skin of slaughter animals and tiny needles made from hard quartz in all its sharp and colorful forms. Also stone hand mills for grinding grain and nuts and the colourred earth called "Ochers".

First of all Pictorial view of the place, hill top with total greenery :

See Thousands year old rock:

Cave painting made by natuarl colors, showing old fight :

See another painting showing the old days fighting :

Painting of animals of that time :

This has been declared as World Heritage site on 2003 , link (Unesco Link )