Thanks Alistair! Have a great day and please do let me know how you get on, Sarah

This is going to be a great help

We’re sitting by the pool planning – thanks for all your work

Excellent blog

Thanks Francis! I’ll put that into the blog and credit you. I guess we didn’t get up early enough and were at the wrong bus station! Glad you enjoyed it and the peace of the place!

Two bits of info back:

1. The public bus leaves from the ST Bus Stand slightly north of the railway station, across the road in a big shopping centre. Hourly from near stands 16/17/18, first bus at 6am. It turns up and they shout Pavagadh! Pavagadh! Pavagadh! And you have to rush, buy tickets once on board. Ask at counters to confirm time and ask people near stands to find someone else going. Cost 50 rupee. On return, I used a shared taxi (Baroda! Baroda! Baroda!) cost 100.

2. Best map I found was Google Maps. You can download areas for offline use now. The major temples in this post are all on there. GPS is invaluable for quickly navigating around. It’s about 1km between each temple – I walked round the main 5 or so really easily with no car or rick.

I did Champaner at 7.30am (super peaceful up the minarets, great country views) then did Pavagadh after. Was fine.

It is truly stunning and the more so because it was empty. Wait until you see Sanchi… And Khajuraho oh and the Golden Temple!