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Blogs from Hampi, Karnataka, India, Asia
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March 22nd 2013
25/2/13 Paisagem de grande beleza: arrozais, agua em abundancia por entre blocos redondos de granito avermelhado. Bananais, coqueirais, caminhos de terra, muitas ruinas de um enorme imperio hindu dizimado pelos muculmanos e templos bonitos, alguns ainda vivios. Gente a lavar-se, a lavar roupa, beber, brincar no rio pela manha. Se fecharmos os olhos a certas coisas (muito turistico) Tour das ruinas em bicicleta com um grupo porreiro, sob calor torrido a horas improprias. Lavei uma 'elefanta', Laxmi, que trabalha no templo. Grande paquiderme , pele aspera e enrugadinha e pelos como arame, a tromba brincalhona e rosada na ponta bufa feliz enquanto a esfregavamos. Grandes patas, solidos troncos, como ossos! E um lindo olhar molhado me olhava da grande cabeca. Toquei pela primeira vez nos bagos leitosos (ainda nao polinizados, um agricultor explicou-me como 'funcionava'..... read more
February 18th 2013
Though it saddens me to begin this post on a negative note, I must say that the process of getting from Gokarna to Hampi was nothing less than a nightmare. After about a 45 minute ride, we arrived at the bus stop in Ankola around 8:00 p.m. via a public bus from Gokarna. Just to be on the safe side, we’d gotten there quite early (3 hours early, to be exact), so we had some time to kill. We read our books and eventually got some dinner, but as 11:00 p.m. rolled around, our bus was nowhere to be found. The staff working at the bus stop withheld whatever information they had about our bus’s whereabouts, but occasionally we overheard talk about either an accident or a breakdown… In any case, we waited for a total ... read more
February 14th 2013
Nous sommes partis en train de Bengalore vers Hospet, la ville la plus proche de Hampi. Premier voyage en train en Inde pour Huguette. Introduction agréable car nous avons des billets 2e classe dans un compartiment avec lits (même si nous voyageons 8 heures de jour, car il n'y avait pas de billets pour le train de nuit), et nous sommes d'ailleurs les seuls passagers dans le compartiment. Seul bémol: nous avons vu un souris et 2-3 rats courants au long des murs. Brrrrr! Le paysage laissait présager celui de Hampi: des grandes roches avec des formes incroyables parsemées sur la plaine (apparemment il y a eu une forte activité volcanique quelques millions d'années auparavant). Hampi est au coeur de l'Inde du sud. Il y a 2-3 petites rues très touristiques perdues dans le paysage général ... read more
February 3rd 2013
V noci som sa na komarov zobudil len raz,dalsi raz som sa zobudil na zimu a asi 3x na bordel co tu robili indovia. Totalne nahlas sa medzi sebou rozpravali,uplne kricali. Okolo 4/00 zacali chodit na hajzel,ocul som len same grcanie alebo co to bolo za zvuky. Nabuduce si radsej priplatim a ziadne byvanie s indami. Z postele som vypadol okolo 8/00,zastavil sa na plackove ranajky a siel cca 3,5km po ceste k juznym chramom. Da sa tu pozicat aj motorka resp.vo velkom tu turisti chodia na bicykloch ale to ma nelakalo. Vsetko je to fajn dostupne pesi,teda ak to clovek nechce obehnut za jeden den. Chramy v podstate to iste co vcera,zrucaniny,prach,skaly a jeden plateny areal. Ten som opat nenavstivil,i ked tu uz bolo vidiet indicke jednanie,straznik ma chcel pustit dnu za 100rupii,inak listok 250 ... read more
February 2nd 2013
There's nothing intimate about Indian cities. Surely it's here that that well worn cliche "assault on the senses" was spawned. Urban India is where the concept of a billion people in one nation resonates. The gamy odours of raw filth that overlay the spicy aromas of street cuisine. The incessant rhythmic honking of car horns. Mosque wake up calls (there may only be a 10% Muslim population here but that's still 100 million). Mainlining vegetarian curries. Cows knee deep in street rubbish somehow eking out an alternate food source to grass. It's dank, it's full throttle and maybe it's not the Indian romance of imaginations or from the pages of Rudyard Kipling, but the lurching excitement of Mysore, Bangalore and Hyderabad has left a thousand still-life images entrenched in the memory banks. No more so than ... read more
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February 2nd 2013
Po zobudeni a neumyti sa. Sak som v Indii netreba. Som siel na miestny mini trh na rananky. Dal som si placky s omackou,stretol som tu aj mojich susedov ale len zeny,tie ang nevedeli. Z ranajok som sa musel vratit na ubytko vymenit si obuv. Slapky ma moc oskierali tak som nahodil botasky. Zla kupa teda,toto su skor len take plazove slapky,v goa asi kupim neake lepsie. Tak a mohla zacat moja put po chramoch za pekneho slnecneho pocasia. Prvy sa na radu dostal blizky chram Virupaksha,vstupne bolo 2rup,za fotak chceli 50 rup. Pred vstupom do tohto dost velkeho komplexu sa bolo treba vyzut. Botasky som si odlozil tam kde vsetci,na zem k stene. Pytam sa chalpika ci to je gratis,vraj hej,len dobrovolny poplatok ak niekot chce. Chram ma moc neoslnil. Predomnou bola daka skolska vypprava ... read more
February 1st 2013
Do Bangalore sme dorazili o 7/00,takze po 14-hodinach jazdy. Hned po vystupeni sa na mna vrhli riksaci,ktorych som odignoroval. Pobral som sa pesibusom na dalsiu bus stanicu vzdialenu cca 5km odkial chodia busy do Hospetu. Bus stanica sa nachadza pri zel.stanici. Cestou som zle odbocil a ocitol sa v botanickej zahrade. Dost ludi tu cvicilo a behalo. Moc som tu nepobudol,bo mi bola strasna zima. Som si musel dat na seba aj tricko s dlhym rukavom. Po tom ako mi naskocila navigacia som sa uz v pohode dostal na bus stanicu. Toto mesto mi ukazalo uz pravu tvar Indie. Vsade po ceste kravy,tony odpadkov a milion ludi a samozrejme drbkovci co furt trubili. Cochin bol oproti tomuto prechadzka ruzovou zahradou. Jedlo som odkladal na neskor,co bola chyba,bo po dorazeni na bus stanicu akurat moj spoj vyrazal. ... read more
January 8th 2013
After a week of beach time, I thought I'd check out Hampi. Didn't bother booking a tour, I wanted to do it in traveller style rather than tourist style. Hampi itself is actually quite a small place, officially a village, around 200 miles off the coast of Goa. I've read various things about it's history, anything from first settlers being there from the time of Jesus to first major settlements coming in around 500 AD - basically it's old and very historic. Took a local bus from Goa and I was told it would take around 7 hours. It ended up taking 10 hours, it was stupidly hot and crowded - probably the worst trip I've ever done. But it was wroth the effort. Hampi is simply stunning. The Hindu temples and some of the architecture ... read more
January 3rd 2013
The end of 2012... It had been such a difficult year in some ways, but so amazing also! I love new years and the start of a fresh calendar. Well, I dislike the last minute party plans and people making a huge deal out of NYE but I think it is important to take a moment to reflect on the past year and what you have accomplished. I remember a piece of paper I wrote with my goals that stared at me every day. If you don't make any goals, you certainly won't reach them. I set absurdly ridiculously huge goals...and guess what? If I had that little piece of paper with me right now, I could draw a line through everything I wrote down. That being said, ok, yes I wanted to travel for a ... read more
December 16th 2012
So after travelling up the Western Ghatts through the mountains we took a 9 hour bus journey to Bangalore, which is one of the craziest cities I've been to in India, and then a 13 hour train journey to one of our target destinations Hampi. It was definatly NOT what we expected! after travelling around the cities and towns of India Hampi was a welcome break from dusty roads and extremely busy city and town centres. Hampi is famous for its temples and the amazing rock formations that surround the area. We stayed across the river from the main town and after a 9 hour bus journay and a 13 hour train journey we were gladly met by the first person who offered us accomodation across the river. We stayed in mud huts for 3 pound ... read more
