We left lovely Mysore and the cosy and safe confines of The Green Hotel and headed onwards towards Hassan. Having said goodbye to our lovely new friends Mark and Sarah from Dublin. They're traveling by motorbike for four weeks and sharing 12 Kgs luggage as opposed to our 45kgs for six. We actually said goodbye five more times as the motor bike they were on was acting up., We picked up our driver and off we went. Our first stop was to be the awesome , stunning, enormous Jain human Sculpture at Saravanabelagola (sp). It is 18M tall and stands atop a hill reached, barefoot, on hundreds of scorching, rock hewn steps. Thankfully there was, what my mother refers any sudden zephir to, "a thin wind". This thin wind was most welcome when we got to
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