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Hampi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hampi, India
Good vibes and big rocks
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Humble Hampi
This is a top pick! ... from the branches. This was very spooky but we believe it is because the tree is worshipped and sacred. Hampi is a difficult destination to reach for those just visiting India for a couple of week’s holiday. There is no airport and is a 12 hour bus ...
Flintstones
This is a top pick! ... complex 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 ...
Hangin' out in Hampi
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Holy Hampi, another Hindu Holiday!!!
This is a top pick! Alcohol is prohibited in the little village of Hampi in Karnataka state. Makes you ask "why come here?" But the word on the backpacker trail is Hampi is unmissable (and alcohol is availabe just across the river). So now that ...
Rocky, Bumpy Hampi!!!!
This is a top pick! ... and horrors 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. ...
Hampi part 2, Hampi Magic
This is a top pick! 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. ...
Hampi part 4, temples and coracles
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
A ruined civilaztion
This is a top pick! ... carvings 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 ...
Hampi part 3, caves and musical stones
This is a top pick! ... sometimes 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 ...
HAMPI
This is a top pick! ... is gone this is one day that will remain with me for the rest of my life. Oh, I almost forgot. I had the freakiest experience in Hampi which I really must tell you about. Ben and I had been on a bike ride, which is a challenge in its self since I ...
Hampi part 1
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
A very special Christmas at the Hindu temple
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Vijayanagar, the City of Victory
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Hampi part 6, Kiran and the plantation
This is a top pick! ... 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.
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The long road to Hampi: part 2
This is a top pick! ... . 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, ...
Hampi Happy New Year 2009!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Rocky Ruins
This is a top pick! ... are very found 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 ...
More Temples
This is a top pick! ... only 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 ...
The long road to Hampi: Part 1
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Mysore and Hampi
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bricks and Blocks
This is a top pick! ... just felt pretty damn good to be back on some rock. Aside from the bouldering, the other favorite pastime for foreign visitors to Hampi is smoking Hash. I've had many different views on smoking throughout my life, and at this point in the game I've found ...
Getting Blessed by an Elephant
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Amazing Hampi
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Ruins of Hampi
This is a top pick! Hampi, India - After leaving Kochi, we took a long train ride to Bangalore. The highlights were when a man walked by selling ice creams!! It was a very hot day on the train! We had a few hours to kill in Bangalore, finding some dinner and a place to relax ...
Mosquitoes galore
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Boulders and Ruins to City
This is a top pick! ... purchase a mine. Unfortunately, on the heels of his investment a ban was passed state wide, preventing its use. Hampi like many tourist locations in India is congested with Israelis. All of the signs here in Hampi are written in Hebrew and it is ...