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Hassan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hassan, India
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Posh,Posh!
This is a top pick! Day 23 ; This morning we left Mysore, 4 and a half hour bus northwest to Hassan, not a lot to report other than getting to Hassan after a hot and crowded bus ride!! Hassan is an industrial town by the looks of it, granite and stone factories everywhere ...
Giant penis
This is a top pick! ... but unpredicted monsoon style rains made me give up on the idea of wandering around outside looking at a temple, so i returned to Hassan, meditating again (yay, still keeping it up, the meditating that is!) before bed. Departed the next day, deciding en ...
Man Do, Monkey Don't
... along with the rulers (King and Queen?) Sometimes it is confusing as I have little knowledge of the rich history of India and its many wars and invasions. I was moved by two events: the sudden appearance of hundreds of young women dressed in ...
When and Elephant Breathes You Listen
... house in Sirigere of the same religious tradition that welcomed us to Bangalore, to their downtown temple, when I first arrived in India. The house appears like some large front columned white house like in the southern U.S., in the heyday of the ...
A Glimpse at the Future of India
Here you see the future of India. These young women are from the rural villages around the town centre where the school is located (Hampi). A more studious group you could not find. All doing math and English in their homework books. ...
Mountain hill station - Ooty
... our 20 minute chat, I learn one is writing for the Rough Guide travel series and both are doing NGO (non profit )work in India for months. Great conversation. I am in a riding group with 3 other guys, two from US and one from Dubai (well two from ...
Paan
Belur et Halebib
Belur et Halebib sont deux temples situés au nord de la ville de Hassan, dans le Karnataka. Ces deux temples datent de la période Hoysala (~1120), une des plus riches de la culture Hindoue. Ok, j'avais dis que j'en avais ma claque des ...
Collosal Wonder - 1,000 years old
Today we visited a temple on the top of rock, located in a small rural town about 1 hour and a half from Hassan, SW India. It was totally dedicated to an ancient one who reputedly had meditated so long in the forest that trees and plants had grown ...
Double Temple for King and Queen
This was a fascinating temple, as signalled by the leader of our group who has been to India before. She discovered that this is a rare example of a temple that incorporates the Queen's area as well as the part dedicated to the King. One ...
Missing Goa
... night sleeper bus and headed for Mysore at 10pm. The sleeper bus ended up having the best bed we had had since we arrived in India.... however the journey was so bumpy neither of us got any sleep! We are now in Mysore and as much as its busy we ...
An Elephant's Eye Height
... house in Sirigere of the same religious tradition that welcomed us to Bangalore, to their downtown temple, when I first arrived in India. The house appears like some large front columned white house like in the southern U.S., in the heyday of the ...
Hospitality in Homes
One night we went to visit some homes. We split up in groups of 3 & 4 with a host and/or guide. My group visited two homes: 1)an upstairs apartment of a young teacher and his wife who was expecting their first child. And 2)the ...
Buried But Remembered
... group at whose temple I first stayed in Bangalore. They have a lot of followers in the rural area of Karnataka (a district of India - like a province - in the SW. They have some 200 schools that they run. They are private schools. ...
Jain Statue
A quick stop here to see the Gomateshvara Statue, there was a pilgramage going on at the time though so we didn't stay long. The Statue is an important site for followers of the Jain religion, the Statue is a naked man about eighteen metres high, as part ...
Belur
... and simple making our way through 3 towns before getting to Hampi to chill out for a few days. However, we are in India and nothing is ever hat straight forward. First stop was Sravanabelagola (try pronouncing that one!) to see the largest Jain statue ...
Public buses..ahhhhh
We traveled from Mysore to Shravanbelgola, then onto Hassan. And it was a rather long and slow trip by bus, but worth it. Our first stop was to go see a statue that would put "the david" to shame. It was a 17m high monolithic state of the naked Bhagwan ...
Hoysala Temples
In the morning we went off to visit Hoysala temples near Hassan. These temples are compact and are covered with carvings. Then it was off to ...
A date with a 17.5m tall naked man
... I switched to another bus to Hassan. Arriving in Hassan, I was seriously hot, sweaty and exhausted with all the bus travel. Hassan is a very chaotic, noisy town with nothing of interest for the traveller, so I didn't bother to get my bearings and ...
The tour goes on
It is found that a part needs to be imported, so a couple of local buses are arranged to take us on while Dan the co-driver stays with the truck. When the issue is rectified he will catch us up. The local buses are not as comfortable, but ...
Hassan and the Hoysala Temples
... . The interiors of both these temples was also fabulous, each carved pillar being different, and with sculpted ceilings, but they were quite dark and hard to photograph. We spent the night in Hassan, then off to Mysore. ...
Hassan to Mysore
... Temple 7. Inside Halebed Temple 8. sugar cane machine 9. Detail @ Halebed Temple . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 6: Hassan. We departed the hotel at about 9AM for our 45 minute drive to Halebed. As we ...
12th century temples
The temple tour starts at 7:15 AM - so we were up at 6 AM. Krishna and Rathna made sure we were well stocked with food (just in case), and Hitendra (Rathna's driver) made sure we arrived on time and stayed to make sure we were sent on our way safely. ...
Shravanabelagola
Another weekend getaway, Shravanabelagola, a Jain pilgrim center, which houses the tallest monolithic statue in the world towering 57 feet. Jainism - Known for prescribing non-violence against any living being as every living soul is considered ...
Belur
... for the Hoysalas may have been from Chola country, a result of the expansion of the empire into Tamil-speaking regions of Southern India. The image of mohini on one of the pillars in the mantapa (closed hall) of the Chennakeshava temple is a fine example ...
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