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Hampi Slideshow
Hampi
Travel Blogs from Hampi, India
The ever-popular Hampi Bazaar
... travelling to the Karnataka state for sure stays in Hampi for a few days. Most rave about how they enjoyed their time there. Hampi, a World Heritage Site, is the ruined capital of the Telugu people. At its height in the 16th century, it was busy market ...
Not Feeling Hampi........
Bangalore Decide to stay a few days here, but really...not much to see or say about it. Hampi - Triple P Factor: 7 In Karnataka now, making my way west. I take a sleeper bus with a bed all the way in the back and bounce all the way to Hampi, a ...
Chilling out in laid back Hampi
... pished ourselves. Good cover for me (Aaron) as I had but still would have liked to make the boat! Would definitely recommend Hampi and we would have liked to stay a bit longer and tried out a bit of rock climbing here but unfortunately the trains ...
Monkeys Eating Motorcycles.
... (the "2" means two tiers and the beds are some of the most comfortable you will find anywhere in India; the "AC" is obvious). Arriving in Hampi at sunrise was brilliant as the landscape is truly other-worldly! It looks as though the earth ...
Cows eat bananas in Hampi
... to discover, upon arrival at the temple, that she was in 'another place' and wouldn't be back until this evening. Tomorrow we leave Hampi at 5.30am (eeek!) so I guess we shan't be seeing Lakshmi's bath, which is a shame as she is a very lovely elephant - ...
Hampi
There are some places that you come across on your travels that you will at with fond memories forever. Hampi is one of these places. Right now, we are at the end of the busy tourist season which meant we could enjoy rather good discounted ...
Room? Bike? Hash?
Apologies for the lack of communication over the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately Gokarna (and now Hampi) has terrible phone signal, and temperamental electricity supply. After only planning on spending 5 or 6 days in Gokarna, I ended up spending ...
Strolling in Hampi
... Eva work with Downs Syndrome children in a scenic part of Austria, and Katrina said we should come and live there as well. I know that Hampi is a wonderland of ruins. Its somewhere I visited before, a long time back, and only for a day, but I did get to ...
7.5 hours on a train to Hampi
... a brawl broke out - right outside the train station - police ignoring it.... We got our rickshaw and made the 6 mile journey to Hampi 60rps (75pence). We went looking around the place for somwhere to stay and found a fantastic little spot over looking the ...
Hampi, Bangalore, Delhi...
... ) right up to the point, and actually after the point, that they ripped us off for several hundred rupees. Typical. Hampi itself is amazing!! It is basically a grouping of ancient ruins, some of which are protected by the government for ...
To see what the past could be...
... . We took over 250 photos that day alone and we didn’t cover half of what the town had to offer. I can’t imagine what Hampi would have been like in its reign as an Empire. What a place it would have been. We were wiped from the day and decided ...
Hampi
The terrain is very interesting here. Boulders, hills, rivers and ruins. The main town road is very touristy. There are too many Israelis here. They like to keep to themselves a lot so I feel kind of isolated around them. I met my friend Vikki who I ...
Hampi!
... later receiving a "kiss" (tap on the head) from her for 10 rupees. We also braved the surrounding roads of hampi on a moped, which although it looked like a motorcycle was decidedly less powerful than my old scooter back home. Here in india, we ...
Trains trains trains... BEAUTIFUL PLACE & SUNSET
... fried train food this was all we needed and sealed the deal. Shortly after we were racing through the stunning scenery of hampi to the sunset viewing point around 6 kms away from the main town and bazaar where were staying. Temples adorned the landscape, ...
Hippies and Hampi
Having lost the travellers trail through Badami, in Hampi we jumped into the middle of it. Hampi is at the heart of a huge Hindu empire that existed from the 1300's until 1565 when it was sacked. The town has been pretty much deserted since, but Western ...
HAMPI.BADAMI.AIHOLE.PATTADKAL
... ; Badavi linga 6. Mango tree 7. Royal enclosure . Click here to Read more: http://relivingmyfavouritemoments.blogspot.in/2012/01/hampi-part-1-hemakuta-hillshampi-bazzar.html DAY 2: ANEGUNDI & HAMPI 1 Nava brindavana 2 Lord ranganatha 3 ...
The Adventires of Tin Tin- Happy in Hampi!
... nbsp; if you don't, a hundred more will come in the wake of that one. i just have to remember that... hampi is a gorgeous place. loads of ancient architecture, stone palaces, elaborate elephant stables, temples abound and the monuments reach ...
Fortunate Misfortune
... in India, gleefully submitting to the red glow that quickly formed on my backside. It was absolutely sublime. Hampi's Vijayanagar ruins, scattered across an undulating and dazzling boulder strewn landscape, was once home to one of the largest Hindu ...
A Surreal Wilderness
... flat rock. In more recent history, about 100 years ago people moved back to this area, and created the place we were staying, Hampi Bazaar. It looked like something off of an Indiana Jones movie. We rode in through the rocky desert, to see a town with ...
Rocking it in the boulder capital of India
Part 1 - Nightmare Journey from Palolem to Hampi What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!!! Well, what can I say... that 7 hours of my life on the train just about put me off the trains for life!!! As we were unable to reserve tickets in advance due to ...
Exploring the ruins of Hampi by bike
... boulders scattered over the hilly country side. It is this mix of a demolished ancient civilization and geomorphological irregularity that made Hampi appealing to me and made it my favorite place so far in India. Once a thriving spice trade city, the ...
Hampi, so relaxing, so lovely
Hampi in Karnataka - my absolute all time favourite! Hampi is briefly mentioned in the Lonely Planet (LP) but the description does not do justice to the place. We approached Hampi fropm the South via Bangalore (a dusty, busy and not very nice ...
We took a wrong turn...(not for the faint hearted)
... past rice fields and farmers turning their soil with buffalo-drawn plows with a backdrop of coconut trees and Hampi’s famous boulders. Darren spotted a group of people ahead, brightly dressed and crowded around a highly decorated car ...
Hampi
... Landschaft und die in ihr verstreut liegenden, verfallenen Tempelanlagen gestreift. Zur Zeit des Vijayanagar-Reiches war Hampi die Hauptstadt eines mächtigen Hindu-Königreichs. Riesige, verfallene Basaranlagen, lassen erahnen welche Betriebsamkeit hier ...