95 km
The Palace Hotel at Alipura was definitely a beautiful place, and very comfortable. This morning the manager told me that the palace is about 300 years old. It opened as a Heritage Hotel in 2004, with only two rooms ready. By now it has ten rooms and plans are to make ready an additional ten, plus building a swimming pool.
I am sorry to say though that the restaurant food may be a bit iffy. I was in great shape when I arrived there around lunch time yesterday. I had my regular Dal Fry with two chapatis for lunch, which tasted fine. Then for dinner I had Paneer Butter Masala w rice. Unusually for me I did not finish my dinner. It did have some foul taste. Then I woke up at 0430 this morning with a pretty bad diarrhea. Spent the next three hours running to the toilet. Then I ate a couple of bananas and took an Imodium pill. I did have breakfast there, a fine cheese omelet, chai and toast butter jam. Breakfast was after all included in the price. I hung around for a bit longer than I really wanted and did not leave until 0930, when I felt I had emptied myself out well, and that the Imodium had kicked in.
I knew I was in for a rather long cycling day, and would have wanted to be on the road much earlier. Todays cycling was fine. Good road and nice weather. But I did not arrive Orchha until 0430 PM. Here I stay at the guest house recommended in Lonely Planet as the Best Budget Option. It is not bad for 300 rupees but the bed is hard. Now I have had a hot bucket shower and been out for dinner. Tomorrow I will check out the town.
There are quite a lot of tourists in town. Mostly Indians but I have also seen well over a dozen foreigners.
It is quite cold outside. Not surprisingly since I am still quite far North, and winter is coming. I have started thinking of catching a train to get a bit further South.
1 comment:
Tja! God Jul och god fortsättning. Perra
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