Orchha - Village Walk

Orchha is easy to walk around in an afternoon.

You could visit the Palaces in the morning or the Chatturbhuj Temple.

There is a public garden and a market and a sort of open square leading to the palace that has the feel of a European college town with small relaxed cafes with tables outside.

The markings on the walls are not necessarily graffiti.  They were explained to us either as Diwali decoration or public health officials notations as to whether inhabitants of the dwellings had been treated for TB.  We were not in the position to tell the difference.

This notwithstanding, and I don't mean to be unkind, but my first impression of Orchha when we entered it was that it consisted of nothing but piles of rubble for a quarter of a mile or so.  This is very deceiving.  It retains the structure of what we would most readily identify as a quite intact small medieval town.  Most people had real homes, of masonry with proper roofs.  This is not always the case in India.

If you go to Orchha, be as gentle to it as it will be to you.