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Tour of India and Nepal with the Adventure Company - Orchha (2/2).
We visit a traditional Indian village.
Kingsley and Indira sample some street food, and as usual, wherever Kingsley goes, livestock are sure to follow.
I've done quite a lot of bushcraft and shelter building, but, using techniques i had been taught and practiced, this was actually someone's home.
This bed was hand made by the occupants of the house.
Indira had told me as a child, she slept in a similar bed.
The construction was amazing, and could easily have been constructed with just a swiss army knife.
The cordage was hand made in a similar fashion to the stuff I did at Woodsmoke where cordage was twisted against its natural "turn", and created an binding effect.
An eating house in the street, with food cooked on an open fire.
It always seems strange when I see people using skills I learn as a hobby, which they use as a practical day to day skill, in the same way I operate a microwave.
One of the few souvenir shops around here, made me laugh. It had a sign in the window which said "More crap inside". Priceless.
The other fort, much nearer to the village, which I had photographed several times from a distance.
When we walked around, we found that several homeless people were living there.
India is really moving on, in terms of business.
Even though it was a small village, there were many posters like these, advertising training in computer technology.
This one, wasn't actually fastened onto the wall, it was painted directly onto it.
The local police station.
After we had walked around the town, Indira took us across the rive on this bridge, and we were able to relax here.
Here I relax in what Kevin called my "C&A Man" pose.
A few minutes later, Kingsley, good natured'ly started to hand out pencils to a few of the local children, and we were mobbed !.
Looking across the river at one of the other forts.
We decide to leave the minibus and walk back to our hotel.
A superb relaxing walk and a great end to another brilliant day.
Before dinner, I grab a bottle of beer, and join everyone, "paddling" in the water at the back of the hotel.
We were sharing the hotel with some other guests, who also like to drink, and sadly at 10pm, the Hotel ran out of beer !.
