August 20, 2005

  • alright...after reading Ye's xanga, i decided that its long overdue for my Hampi entry..so here goes... this place is called Hampi, pronounced like humpy.  you can imagine what they do all day here.  ahahhaa j/k j/k.  it was another overnight train thing, left work on friday night and came back early monday morning.  very tiring...yes, but very fun-like keeping our entire train compartment up all night playing card games as well as seeing how many cockaroaches we could kill with guillaume's shoe on the way back to bangalore.  haha.  good stuff.  gooooo india railways!


    a short verbatim description of the places we went taken from the travel guy, harry. ...haha too lazy to type all this out, sorry: 


    Badami:  Badami is famous for its four cave temples –all hewn out of sand stone on the precipice  of a  hill. The exquisite sculptures and the rust red sandstone cliffs tell many a story.the North Fort,Mahakuta and the Banashankari Temples are not to be missed.



    Aihole & Pattadakal:  Aihole, with most of the 'Shikaras' in  Indo-Aryan style.A tranquil village on the banks of Malaprabha river. Aihole is  renowned as the cradle of Hindu temple  architecture.



    Pattadakal : the richness  of the Chalukyan architecture is writ in the cluster of ten beautifully chiseled temples.Visit to the rock-cut temples temples of Pattadkal where the evolution of windows and pillared halls made the  temple  more  decorative  and larger. Visit Virupakha Mallikarjuna, The Jambulinga temples,The Kadasiddeshwara, and other temples.


    Hampi: Hampi, the beautiful capital of Vijaynagar empire.It is suitated on the banks of the river Tungabhadra in the region of  Bellary , is a  vast site  of  monuments and ruins, a mute witness to an era of glories,triumphs  and tragedies.
    Visit  the temple of Virupaksha, Lotus  Mahal Palace, The Vittala Temple with its famous stone chariot, musical pillars and incredible  sculpture  work.  The  Hazar  Rama  Temple depicts the story of Ramayana in great detail.


    *yah, shudda skipped all that and gone straight to the pictures.  hahaa. 


    mMMmm...masala dosa's for breakfast.  the june crew were scarfing them down like none other whereas the newly arrived july batch still had difficulty eating only with their right hand...



    on the train with brianna and eric...listening to some xmas tunes in july. hahaha yah...so i missed on the past christmas, can you blame me for making up for it now? hehe



    so i start to blank out after having gone on so many different guided tours so don't kill me if i'm not completely descriptive. this is some queen of some time period's summer palace.  hey!  gimme credit for remembering some things, yah? heh. 



    ...somewhere in hampi. hahaa



    wall carvings



    more wall carvings...



    and my favorite wall carving...hehehehe...can you see why???



    wow...look at the knockers on that babe.



    hehehe...me and my ADD kicking in while the guide was talking. haha this picture is of ye listening very, very attentively and me....putting bunny ears on his head...and patrick looking at me like i'm crazy. ahhaa



    another one of those palace things...man, i can't even get the tourist thing down right.  *sigh*



    hmm...the dancing shiva!!!



    grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr



    hehehe...yes, there are 2 fingers in this picture-one belongs to me and the other one is patrick's.  hehe.  hey!  we wanted to be in the picture too!  haha



    guillaume, me, and patrick



    same view over a different edge...



    maura and i outside of some caves with carvings in them..very cool!  oh, and also where there were a bunch of people killing monkeys there. no seriously, they were people killing monkeys!!!



    the whole group in front of the caves



    brianna and i again...but this time, somewhere else in hampi!!!



    can you say...a crazy bollywood movie starring americans! hahaa



    stone chariot...must've been hard to transport people in this...hmMmmmmm...stone wheels



    the hotel we stayed at...pretty cool.  too bad there were hairy sheets...oh well, what can you do?  choose another hotel that's for sure...but hey, for like $6 a night, i'm not complaining. 



    the entrance to a temple...or maybe its just an entrance to somewhere else....hmm....



    MmMMmMM...lingaaaaaaaaaaa. hahahaha sick!!!! hehe...errr...inside joke.  all of us on the hampi trip were quite the fascinated with the lingas...they were a symbol of worship that represented the joining of the male and female reproduction organs...can you say, fallic????!!!!  ahhahaa.  i have a miniture one that i pray to nightly. hahaaaa j/k j/k 



    patrick and me in front of more ruins!



    ruins...ruins...and more ruins!!! yippeee  kinda cool how there are so many boulders there!  gooooo CE70!!!



    and that folks...was the hampi trip.  hehe.  it was one of my fav!

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