good times in hampi

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With Sandie and BJ I took the longest bus-ride in local buses so far - destination Hampi. With 6 different buses and about 3 hours waitingtime at a bus-station we arrived at 4 am in the morning in Hosped. There we slept at the bus station for about 3 hours to take the first connection in the morning to Hampi.
Hampi is actually a tiny village in a huge and amazing landscape of strange rock-formations with old Hindu-temples spread all over this huge area. It used to be the heart of a big Hindu-empire - it's enchanting buildings and temples are simply amazing.
Due to the e-mail contact I knew that Adrian and Melanie, two of the hometown-friends I met in Pushkar, are currently here too. I found them at probably one of the nicest situated guesthouses in Hampi and so BJ, Sandi and I moved there instantly. Vipassana-crew met Austria-crew!
To explore the wide-spread temples we rented scooters 2 times - it was really great fun and probably the best way to get around in this huge area.
At the end of the week it was time to say good-bye again. The last tiny Vipassana-group had to split up - BJ and Sandie going different directions... Thank you for everything!

Really good times in Hampi!

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Photos

temple in the heart of hampi
where the holy temple-elephant of hampi has his home...

in the vitthala temple
a world heritage monument

women at work!
in india women seem to make all the hard work - men only advising them how to do it!

after our last breakfast together
bj heading to gokarna and sandie to putaparti. i really enjoyed the time with you both my friends!

adrian and melanie
2 friends from my hometown - I met them first in rajasthan. nice to meet them in hampi again!

Comments

[Anna]

Hi Manuel, very nice to see your pics and be involved in your trip at least a little bit. Life back here in Germany absorbed me really fast, and when I look at these pictures I can't believe it was only a couple of week ago that we were sitting at the India Gate in Bombay and entertaining the Indian guys. The memory of India is already starting to become glorfied in my mind, and I am forgetting about how annoying the men were... Enjoy your time! A big hug

[hannes]

Willkommen im digitalen Bloggerdorf!
Hallo Manuel! Nachdem ich auf deiner Webseite gerade all die huebschen (wann fuehren die hier endlich die tatstatuer mit nem ue ein?) bilder von hampi gesehen habe, freue ich mich umsomehr auf morgen, da ich mich heute auf den Weg dorthin machen werde - Aber nicht mit 6 bussen, (dass hatten wir vorgestern von palolem nach arambol), sondern ganz komfortabel mit nem night-sleeper(Ich bin da naemlich gewarnt worden;-). Ja, wir sehen uns vielleicht eh in den nepalesischen huegeln (wo der Adrain und die Melanie vielleicht auch auftauchen). greetz, hannes