Khajuraho is a small town that can be reached from Satna on the Mumbai-Allahabad railway link and from Jhansi on the Delhi-Mumbai road link. The town is famous for its exquisitely carved and embellished temples and sculptures, which are a thousand years old. The main temples are in the western group, conveniently close to the touristy part of Khajuraho. Most are contained within a fenced enclosure, which is very well maintained as a park.

Khajuraho was an important centre for the arts, nurturing music, dance, poetry, painting, astrology and astronomy. The week-long Khajuraho Dance Festival is world-renowned where exponents of classical dance forms like Odissi and Kathak perform. Sculptures exhibited the Navarasas, meaning nine moods or expressions of mankind - valour, horror, fear, anger, laughter, sorrow, wonder, love and tranquillity. So intricately is sculpture and architecture combined here, that every temple looks like one giant carving reaching out to the skies with its inspiring shikhars. Hindi is spoken with the local Bundelkand dialect. English is also spoken by quite a few people.