cold shower

We have been in Kujaraho for a day, and it is really cool. This city is famous for it's erotic temples. They were built over a thousand years ago, and they are huge temples covered in intricate carved statues of some pretty lude stuff! No one is really sure why all the sex, but the leading theory is that the people believed that, like meditation, sex was another way to achieve nirvana. Pretty interesting stuff. Now we are on our way to Bodhgaya. Bodhgaya is where prince Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment underneath a bodhi tree twenty-six centuries ago! A temple marks the spot, and a decendant of the same tree is still there. We have officially kicked the trip into overdrive, and booked the remainder of our train tickets. We only have two and a half weeks left, and we are a little sad. We still have a lot to see though, so that's nice.-ashby