Fixing A Broken Heart......At Orchha & Khajuraho

Travelling works wonder for a newly single person—so we’ve been told. We travelled to the heart of India to find out. Did it work?

- Mehul Reuben Das

A very dear friend of mine had his heart broken. So, like a good wingman, I decided to organise a weekend trip to let him lick his wounds and console himself. Dodging the clichéd post-breakup trip to Goa, we decided to give in to our millennial angst by being different: Khajuraho and Orchha in Madhya Pradesh.

PRO TIP

Goa is overrated and who knows what you will encounter in Thailand. For heaven’s sake, think out of the box.

We decided to take a train to Jhansi, the nearest town to Orchha. Unfortunately, we could not afford flight tickets as we had spent most of our salaries drinking away the sorrow and pangs that follow a breakup. At four o’clock in the morning, as we were about to reach Jhansi, we were woken up by a wailing child wouldn’t stop crying. Not a great start to our trip, I thought.

PRO TIP

Don’t travel immediately after having your heart smashed to smithereens. Wait a little, at least for one salary cycle, to allow your mind, and more importantly, your wallet to recuperate.

From Jhansi, we took a rickshaw to Orchha the same morning, as it was cheap. Taking a taxi would have been cheap as well, if we could find one. As glorious as it once was, Jhansi definitely is lazy and certainly not a morning town.