Hampi, India Travel Blogs

Good vibes and big rocks
Feb 21, 2007 (10 photos)

... She Said: Hampi is a traveler's oasis and is a "must see" for anyone spending a few weeks traveling around India. The scenery is spectacular, with giant granite boulders everywhere, a peaceful river running through rice paddies, and magnificent stone ...

A ruined civilaztion
Oct 13, 2006 (15 photos)

... were and which Kings and queens frequented these places. One incredibly cool place is the Vitalla temple, northeast of the Hampi bazaar center. This temple was used to play music which allegedly could be heard from 1 kilometer away. Eacj column in this ...

Hampi part 2, Hampi Magic
Apr 25, 2006 (5 photos)

With Rocinante all tightened up and ready to go whenever I choose, I set off to explore Hampi. Breakfast at the Mango Tree restaurant was lovely, overlooking the river, and eating my usual fruit and curd, though this time with muesli, European style. ...

Flintstones
Feb 20, 2006 (42 photos)

... and that was it. Tomorrow we're back to Goa but we'll stay in Panaji and perhaps trys to find a quieter beach. Hampi is an incredible place. Fantastic scenery and temples. Very laid back and for all the tourists we saw on the train, we only ...

Hampi part 4, temples and coracles
Apr 26, 2006 (5 photos)

... his girlfriend looked mighty familiar, "Victor!! Victor!!" I called out, and sure enough, the Ukranians had arrived at last in Hampi. Though I did not see Victor again in Hampi, I did run into Sasha,and the other one with the unpronounceable name, and ...

Hampi part 3, caves and musical stones
Apr 25, 2006 (5 photos)

... beautiful. Exiting that cave, I proceeded up and then down the secret staircase to find another post-and lintel shrine overlooking Hampi, and in full view of the Hanuman temple, some 2 kilometers distant. Quite a view. At some places I looked for more ...

Hampi part 1
Apr 25, 2006 (5 photos)

... it is who you have. . This is one of my own. Enough perigrinating, and on to the show. . . The first day in Hampi I basically spent having a lazy morning drinking coffee and reading the Vijay times, then I set to work on Rocinante in the heat of the ...

Hangin' out in Hampi
Dec 29, 2004 (10 photos)

... Shanti guesthouse which was run by a mad pann-chewing waiter who would parrot back your order to you in a slightly unhinged screech. Hampi itself was quite traveller-y but we could see why. The landscape looked like it came from a Star Trek movie with huge ...

Hampi part 6, Kiran and the plantation
Apr 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... of them. . Well, sorry, enough analysis for now, back to Kiran, and his Plantation. Kiran is an active member of the Hampi Colony Association, actually I believe he is the treasurer. . He is a healthy and slightly westernized man of 26 years old, with ...

Hampi part 5, Hanuman, the monkey king.
Apr 27, 2006 (5 photos)

... haha. .. I slept like a log all night with indian pop songs and horns blaring all night. Just slept like a baby. . . Sorry, not much about Hampi in this entry, but there is still much to tell, so stay tuned. . . Oh, and P.S. LIVE NOW! Do not delay.

The long road to Hampi: part 2
Apr 24, 2006 (5 photos)

... There's nothing after a hard day's ride than an ice-cold weak Indian beer. Except two. This was one detail about Hampi I had overlooked, I guess. I ordered coke and pani, and talked a bit with a couple of westerners whose english was also marginal, paid ...

HAMPI
Mar 7, 2006 (15 photos)

... lunch. Everyone gathers here for lunch. The food is delicious and the view is spectacular. We ended up spending 7 nights in beautiful Hampi and I don't wanna bore you with all the day to day stuff so I will just give you the high lights. We spent 2 ...

Rocky, Bumpy Hampi!!!!
Oct 9, 2006 (20 photos)

... beggaring description. Although in ruins today, this capital city once boasted riches known far beyond the shores of India. The ruins of Hampi of the 14th Century lies scattered in about 26 sq. km area, amidst giant boulders and vegetation. Protected ...

Vijayanagar, the City of Victory
Apr 7, 2007 (26 photos)

... 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 history. From here, I will begin exploring India's south, so this was a good place to begin.

Hampi Happy New Year 2009!
Dec 31, 2008 (36 photos)

This place has a calming, magical quality about it. Hampi is a modern 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 ...

A very special Christmas at the Hindu temple
Dec 25, 2007 (89 photos)

... States. After Hampi was mostly party, so don't expect any amazing photography in my next blog entry.   Now back to Hampi. It is a small town surrounded by rocky hills and archeological sites, which we almost covered in a two day sight seeing spree ...

The long road to Hampi: Part 1
Apr 24, 2006 (5 photos)

... used to it now, a week later and holed up in Mysore, but I was a little less used to it then. . About halfway to Hampi, Rocinante suddenly lost power and stopped running. Of course, switching to the reserve tank on the fly is old hat, so there it went. ...

More Temples
Feb 25, 2006 (38 photos)

... run a couple of times a week, so, unlike your average tourist, we have managed to see all of the temples !!! As far as Hampi is concerned, it really is an impressive sight. There are no polished sets of tits here, unusual, but if you can handle a little ...

Rocky Ruins
Mar 31, 2005 (4 photos)

... of and believe the SA public sector could adopt to great success!). Food wasn't too fantastic in Hampi (compared to the rest of India). Most places seemed to think tourists want to eat western food (which is often Indianised into strange concoctions or ...

Mosquitoes galore
Feb 14, 2008 (20 photos)

Arriving late in Hospet, i met Loda, a Tibetan travelling around India after finishing his lengthly studies in Dharamsala. He was also travelling to Hampi, so we boarded the bus together, eventually getting to Hampi and due to the late hour having to ...

Mysore and Hampi
Nov 16, 2005 (14 photos)

... by a striking boulder covered, ruin pocked landscape.....sounds pretty good huh??!! Unfortunately the tourist dollar reigns supreme in Hampi... on the public bus from hospet, mark was having a little eyebrow raising/funny face competition with a young ...

Temple-mental
Jan 7, 2005 (6 photos)

... before and after photographs (some rubble has been cleared away, but the most striking difference was the introduction of colour photography!) Hampi itself is a 'no-frills' travellers town, and, as it is a holy site, meat and alcohol are illegal. It ...

Pebbles and Thorns
Jan 19, 2005

... its wings a flurry of madness. Half humming bird, half harrier jet...I once again appreciate the abundance of bird-watching that India has to offer. (I never really looked at birds except the pets I had) January 6th, 2005 I reach the Vipassana Meditation ...

Bricks and Blocks
Jan 24, 2005 (5 photos)

... force myself to see anything just because it's there. Needless to say, there are an abundance of crumbling, majestic temples in Hampi, that were carved out of the towering granite blocks. For me, the boulders themselves are my temple; with my hands, my ...

Getting Blessed by an Elephant
Apr 22, 2009 (20 photos)

... Goa on public transport and getting stuck in a random town overnight, we took a train and a rickshaw and finally made it to Hampi just before sundown   Elections were on so beer sales were off.....   We managed to bump into a lonely English ...

Amazing Hampi
Apr 11, 2008 (23 photos)

... at me, something freaked her out and she didn't stop crying...was it my pimples? my goggle eyes :) who knows.... In Hampi, we immediately felt captivated by the landscape of rock boulders and the desert air. The starry sky was amazing and Hampi Bazaar ...

Hampi
Nov 25, 2008 (35 photos)

... we were sold.  As Fi laid down for a while i ambled down into the town along the main vehicle-less Hampi Bazaar.  The backstreets leading off the main bazaar where we were staying were filled with smiling children playing games from a forgotten ...

Hampi, Karnataka
Jan 3, 2007

10 hour overnight sleeper train to Hospet and then change onto a local bus for a 30 minute ride to Hampi.

Off the beach
Feb 16, 2007 (9 photos)

Thought I should get off the beach for a while!  Wasn't going to bother with Hampi given it's inconvenient location half way across the country and not on the way to anywhere else I wanted to go.  But apparently it's a must see so made the ...

Twice blessed in Hampi
Feb 13, 2009 (11 photos)

... view of rice paddy fields from our porch.  Very oddly, there is a classic car club doing a tour of India camping at Hampi down by the river. Here's me artistically draped on one of their cool cars Their camp is AMAZING - ...