Our drive to Orchha was a leisurely one and the sight of our hotel, a very pleasant one indeed. Orchha is a medieval town built on a ridge and it's distinctive outline of domes and citadels is visible from a long way off. It is really only a single palace complex, decaying rapidly, but parts of it remain and serve as a hotel, museum and administrative offices. We stayed in a section called the Sheesh Mahal, (palace of mirrors), said to have been built for a visiting emperor. (They must have had lots of notice because it's pretty grand).
We could get used to staying in palaces. What we liked about Orchha was its quiet ambience and village atmosphere, despite the grand scale of its older buildings. The food in the local village was fabulous and shopping was a relaxed affair.
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