Travelogues Madhya Pradesh

Week 5: February 2-8 Monday, February 2: This week we spent the first day at the old school because there was a parliamentary session scheduled, which w

Bhimbetka Rock Shelters The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site near Bhopal spanning the Paleolithic and Mesolithic and historical periods. It shows the earliest...

One of the main goals of our tour through Madhya Pradesh is Bhopal - Gerhard's favorite city in India. During many business trips, he got to know Bhopal as a relatively calm...

Kanha National Park covers 940 square kilometers and two districts - Mandla and Balaghat - in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is said to be one of the best tiger reserves...

Gwalior - a former princely state - is a historic city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and famous for its magnificent palaces, monuments and holy temples. As the cradle of...

Located on the southern border of the state of Madhya Pradesh, Pench National Park covers 758 square kilometers across the densely forested districts of Seoni and Chhindwara....

We continue by car to our first national park. A few “atmospheric pictures” should give you an impression of rural India. The Bandhavgarh Wildlife Sanctuary was declared a...

Maggi is very well known in India as a ready-made noodle producer

Khajuraho is one of the most visited tourist places in the state of Madhya Pradesh and is known for its temples built by the rulers of the Chandela dynasty in 885 and 1030. Only...

Our days usually start with an alarm ringing at 4:00 am, as we are picked up for the tiger safari around 4:45. A moving day - in this case from Bandhavgarh NP to Kanha NP - with...

On Monday, we took the night train from Mumbai to Jabalpur. First, we traveled to the Mumbai train station. The station was very crowded. Everywhere, people were sitting and...

On the way from Gwalior to Kajuraho we make a stopover in ORCHHA: Orchha is a small village with only about 12,000 inhabitants in the Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh....

And then I finally treated myself to first class on an Indian train, which was actually extravagant. Because this journey from Jhansi to Bhopal only took 4 hours but I had only...

The first city we arrived in, in Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh City, which is also the capital. Here, we learned about Vietnam's history. We visited an outdoor war museum. On the way...

When we sat in the first train the next morning, which started from Khajuraho station, I couldn't imagine experiencing another highlight in such a short time. It was once again...

(German version below) The second - and this time last - stop in India is the Kanha National Park, which we have already seen. We were a bit disappointed here 10 months ago......

The title image must be a tiger, even if they came a bit later ...

Tea, Coffee, Tomato soup woke me up from my sleep after a pleasant night here on the 'HWH Mumbai Mail' from Kolkata to Satna. I looked at the clock, it was 7 o'clock, time to...

(German version below) Our sabbatical year is over, but our desire to travel has not been satisfied. Hesse is offering three-week Easter holidays this year, and we have decided...

I let the pictures speak for themselves for now, as I currently do not feel inclined to write about the place in a native manner. It is definitely a unique experience, simply...

After Taj Mahal, in the evening we went to the train station to take a train to Khajuraho. First, I want to mention that Indians no longer sit on top of the trains. Although the...