Figure at the musical temple

Rickshaw Driving Lessons in Hampi, Karnataka

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February 3rd 2007
Feb 3 - 6 After the Yellamma festival, we were pretty exhausted and ended up just hiring a taxi to take us 5 hours to Hampi, the former capital of the vijayanagar empire and site of many beautiful temples and ruins. In the morning we woke up early to see the temple elephant, Laxshmi get her bath in the river. We ran into this guy Ramesh who we had met at the Yellamma festival. He was a youn ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more