Elephant stables - Hampi Ruins

Hampi

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April 19th 2010
Hot Hampi Wow! what a contrast. We found ourselves in the middle of a "lunar" landscape, large smooth boulders lay all over as if sprinkled from the sky. Forming hills and defying gravity by balancing in the most unlikely way, one on top of the other. For at least a thousand years this has been a holy place. Evidence of stone temples and forts was everywhere, spread out over a vast, ... 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