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When you are traveling there are so many stories shared about where to go when and who with and how much. We had both heard so many good things about the magic and mystery of Hampi that we decided to get out there and have a little look ourselves. After the most relaxing week in Goa - chilling on the beaches of Arambol we decided to leave our wonderful little beach hut nestled in the palms right on the beach and take one sweaty little mission to Mapusa to get the bus to Hampi! The taxi driver takes us to the [View Full Entry]

Manda s Marvellous Mission - Amanda Cooton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 7th 2009 | 70 Views | [diary=458732]


By purplekitty83
November 3rd 2009
Five days in Hampi Asia » India » Karnataka » Hampi
Friday, Oct 30th, Hampi - Karnataka This morning was the first time in forever, that we took a yoga class. It was different, but not bad. Weird introduction… Whatever. We arrived in Hampi yesterday morning after a 14 hour bus ride. It was fun, but also totally exhausting. It was a sleeper bus, so picture this like a bus with a ton of bunk beds inside. Ok, if you ever decided you wanna take a bus in India, make sure, you didn’t have recent abdorminal surgery, you are pregnant, suffering from hernia, have any ulcers (sorry, inside joke ) No, seriously, [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 3rd 2009 | 221 Views | [diary=450434]

Returning our Bikes
Temples everywhere
Halloween

By cheesybear
September 20th 2009
Day 21 - Hampi, Karnataka Asia » India » Karnataka » Hampi
Hampi is a very cool little place indeed. It’s famous for its ancient ruins and I thought we may have been headed to some predictable tourist set-up a couple of kays away from some olllld shiz, but not so. The locals here have literally set up shop (school, home etc.) smack bang in the middle of towering mountains of the oldest boulders in the world, and the richest archeological site in India. We did a bike tour of the town. Just us with a guide cause its low season, to check out some of the best stuff. The rest we explored [View Full Entry]

cheesybear - Tom & VV | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 20th 2009 | 203 Views | [diary=438181]

Puttin' the gobbie in your Aloo Gobi. Street food. - Mysore, Karnataka
Mysore, Karnataka
Chamundeshwari Temple - Mysore, Karnataka

By EmmaT
May 30th 2009
Hampi Day 2/3 Asia » India » Karnataka » Hampi
I managed to tag along with 3 German guys from my guest house on their sightseeing trip round the area. We all bundled into a small rickshaw and drove around most of Hampi's 26km2 of temples and ruins. We saw so many by lunch time we had had enough. The guys wanted to go to the Mango tree for lunch so I went along and had a delicious panneer massala curry. I came back to the guest house and literally collapsed and slept for hours, think it must have been my illness making me so weak. When I woke some of [View Full Entry]

EmmaT - Emma Thomas | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 17th 2009 | 164 Views | [diary=409312]

Monkey god
big bug
Sunset

By EmmaT
May 29th 2009
Hampi Day 1 Asia » India » Karnataka » Hampi
I traveled by night train to Hospet and then took tuk-tuk/rickshaw to Hampi. I wasn't sick during the night as i hadn't eaten anything for the last two days which was good as the train loo's are really dirty. When I got off the train I was asked/hassled by about 20 people for a rickshaw ride to Hampi but I wanted to take the bus as it was about 10Rs instead of 150Rs. I arrived at about 9am in Hampi so I wen to internet cafe before looking for a hotel to kill some time. I checked into the Shanti Guest [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 17th 2009 | 183 Views | [diary=409311]

Virupaksha Temple again
Funny named phone boxes
Mango Tree

Hello everyone! Given that we have now been in India for one full week I have decided it is time to get this travel blog up and running to fill you in on our adventures to date. Firstly, for all of those who may not understand the "RoBeeJenZa" reference it is the nicknames of the four of us (the brain child of one Miss Hanna Craven)who are on this journey and who will be attributing to this blog (Za, also known as Zara, will be joining us in Europe so will chime in then). On the plane, roughly somewhere over the [View Full Entry]

RoBeeJenZa - Claire Beesley | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 10th 2009 | 304 Views | [diary=397701]

Dancing at wedding 2, Mumbai
 Dancing at wedding 3 - Mumbai
Gateway of India, Mumbai

By Jaenski
May 3rd 2009
Hampi!!! Asia » India » Karnataka » Hampi
Hmmm, was kann ich im Nachhinein zu Hampi sagen? Wollte eigentlich gar nicht hin, weil die Stadt als Touristenattraktion hunderte von alten Ruinen zu bieten hat (hhhm, klang erst nicht sooo spannend), aber dann, wow, was fuer ein Ort!!! Die Stadt ist halb von einem Fluss umrandet, in dem sich die Bewohner waschen, Waesche waschen, Essen waschen, Geschirr abwaschen und sonstiges waschen, und dieser Fluss ist auch die Grenze die die Stadt zu einer "trockenen" Stadt macht (trocken=kein Alkohol, verstanden ;-)??). Wir wussten das natuerlich nicht und waren erst ein bissal geschockt und unglaeub [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 28th 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=448239]

ich mit der Kuh...sau Schiss!!
Ueberall liegen die Kuehe rum
alte Ruinen in Hampi

For anyone traveling Goa to Hampi, do not get a bus!! We were told not to by other travelers and the travel agency that we booked with but had no other choice; the trains all book up 2 weeks in advance. Firstly we had no aircon which we had paid for, that wasn't really a problem but one of the drivers smelt like drink and didn't know where anyone was supposed to be sitting. That said, and although we were very aprehansive it all went fine.....untill..... the second driver took over... They must work to schedules or just want to get [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 14th 2009 | 108 Views | [diary=398828]

us stopping for a break
how many locals can you fit in a rickshaw
The river ...

By sneo
April 15th 2009
Hampi in December 2008 Asia » India » Karnataka » Hampi
This time I didnt chose to revist the same places. I feel content with Vittala Temple. We hired bicycles and rode to Underground Shiva Temple, Mosque area, Mahanavami Dibba and Hazara Rama temple. You can do all these in a half day. They are all a hop away from each other and best do-able by bicycles. Mahanavami dibba is beautiful. Huge landscape with a raised platform and every layer of steps upstairs have sculptures of infantry, cavalry, wrestlers, dancers, and other medieval professions. Very impressive landscape! I ran out of battery to capture this, but I ran like crazy in the [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 15th 2009 | 37 Views | [diary=391052]


Wednesday March 4th Squashed ourselves into a van full of backpackers, like ourselves, and headed to the airport. One kid, who looked a little green and carried a freshly cut suit, admitted he’d been up all night and we were glad we hadn’t. Obviously, Thai Airways experiences technical difficulties and we all have to get off the plane we’d been sitting on for an hour. We arrived in Bangalore late, and were hustled into a cab. Apparently, a new airport had been built in the last six months and it was miles away from anything. The air smelled noticeably and distinctively [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 24th 2009 | 174 Views | [diary=384397]

George and the main square
Katherine walks a lonesome road
family poses


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