Vijayanagar Hampi

... of Karnataka to visit the town of Hampi. From the 1300's to the mid 1500's this place was the capital of the Vijayanagar (pronounced "Vee-Jay-Ah-Nah-Gar") Empire that dominated southern India and was one of the largest Hindu empires in history. They ...

... . The Vijayanagara empire stretched over at least three states - Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh. The destruction of Vijayanagar by marauding Moghul invaders was sudden, shocking and absolute. They reduced the city to ruins amid scenes of ...

... . The architects and stone carvers of Hampi definitely wanted people to observe in many different ways. In the end, Vijayanagar, which means "City of Victory" experienced defeat, and the capital sits abandoned as testimony to Southern India's rich ...

... tourist oriented village situated amongst the ruins of what once used to be one of the largest cities in the world. Vijayanagar was from about the 1340's to 1565 the fabulously rich capital of the last great Hindu kingdom of India. Its hundreds of ...

Hampi Hampi is a small town which contains the ruins of the Vijayanagar kingdom, earily spread across a strange boulder strewn landscape reminiscent of central Australia and the Devil's Marbles. We spent three days wandering the many temples, dwellings ...

... rocky, desert like landscape unlike anywhere else in India. This being Interspersed with the remains of the Vijayanagar empire (an empire that ruled southern India from 1336- 1565AD) makes it an attractive place for all. As a direct result of this, ...

... from Goa began and we weren't the only ones to make the 10- hour bus trip inland to Hampi. People flock here to see the ruined city of Vijayanagar, an amazing site with a vast collection of Hindu temples and palaces hewn from the local granite. These ...

Entry containing 104 photos titled: On the train to Hampi, Dudhsagar Waterfalls, The amazing city of Hampi

... between North and South India. It is also a place of symbolic importance. As the ancient captial of the mighty Hindu Vijayanagar empire, which rivaled the Muslim Moghul empire to the North and the surrounding Deccan sultanates. The area is scattered with ...

... When it was dark, we headed to browse the shops and street stall vendors of Hampi. The vendors in Hampi were the most pleasant that I've found in India. They weren't too pushy and they were willing to negotiate. I, however, was only really interested in ...