Safar

Winter, a season I look forward too, brings its own romance, with the freezing cold, a cup of steaming ginger tea,  lazing in the sun, cracking moongphalis, eating mooli-gajar with kala namak, juicy green guavas, sweet peas….surrounded by the vibrant colours of the chrysanthemums and dahlias.....It is also the perfect season to travel in India. It was on one such winter afternoon that the wanderlust bit me again. And believe you me that it was in half an hour that I had coerced by husband to book our tickets online and we were set ……for Orchha, a small town in Madhya Pradesh which I had read about years ago, in a travel magazine on a flight. The pictures had remained somewhere in my mind with a promise to visit. A five hour comfortable Shatabdi train journey and we were in Jhansi, with Orchha just about 20 kms away. Orchha literally springs on you after a short drive of about 35 minutes on the single lane meandering country road. As we neared the sleepy medieval town, ...