Khajuraho - the Jewel in the Crown of India

Well, after the riot of color on our senses in the Varanasi silk factory, and a visit to Saranuth, the place where Buddha made his first enlightened speech, we shoved off for Khajuraho. Many were under the weather and facing health challenges, but as always happens, when we reach that country town of Khajuraho with the clean air and traffic free tree-lined roads, people sighed with relief.

Just as lovely as always, Khajuraho greeted us with her majestic Kama Sutra temples and calmed us. We dropped into the deepest of our sensations. People visited many of the temple groupings and roamed freely. The temples are so spectacular, what's not to like?

For me, the highlight was re-visiting the little traditional village and especially the school. The principal has made many new changes to the building structure that my groups continue to fund. I saw four new classrooms started, a far cry from the original state of two outdoor sit-on-the-ground rooms when we originally visited three years ago, the year we filmed Tantric Tourists.

When we arrived, the children were all in one big room reciting poetry and singing songs. They were thrilled to see us and performed for us with splendor. Then we had our chance to perform for them. Deborah, Maggie and I sang the old Donovan tune "Happiness Runs in a Circular Motion." We had Krishna, Obie, Ray and Alexandra singing back-up. It was completely fun and the children applauded for us with glee.

Then we walked to the temple nearest the village with a group of children following us as always happens. We performed a lovely puja s sun set over the Khajuraho mountains. What a lovely way to our tour together.