Well, let me say, I will write that conclusion at the end as well...just to satisfy every customer's need...
Hampi...what is Hampi? As a person not being born in India this questions might occur when everybody is telling stories about that place. I have to admit, at first I did not even believe half of the stories half as much as I should have...or should I not? Getting confused here and off-track...
Let us ask our good friend Wikipedia....:
<Hampi (Kannada: ಹಂಪೆ Hampe) is a village in northern Karnataka state, India. It is located within the ruins of Vijayanagara, the former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. Predating the city of Vijayanagara, it continues to be an important religious centre, housing the Virupaksha Temple, as well as several other monuments belonging to the old city.>
Hm, but what made this experience an awesome experience?? It must have been pretty awesome, that is for sure! Let me tell you right from the start...
The first exiting experience was the way to Hampi. Since it is not located near to Bangalore you should definitely give it a thought before you try taking a rickshaw and going there! We, that is a group of five German trainees, decided to take the Sleeper Bus. Yes, it is a bus in that you are supposed to sleep. I chose the word 'supposed' very carefully because half of us were sleeping only half as much as they would like to have had (this time I got it right^^). Being used to the usual conditions of German streets or autobahn, sleeping in German busses should be no problem. Indian streets are somehow different. Especially outside the bigger cities it seems that there has been a bunch of holes in a field and someone tried to build a street around them (unsucessfully). This is why sleeping is to some extent not possible. I have been blessed with a skill, that allows me to sleep in any place, any position and any condition applying. This is why I slept like a baby^^
We arrived in the early morning, grabbed a rickshaw (what a fight...) and finally arrived in Hampi. At 8 o'clock in the morning the temperature had already reached about 28°C! Yes, kind regards at this point of the post to Germany :)
It would be wrong to name all of the temples since my Indian friends would already know them for sure and my German friends would think 'who cares about the name, it is a temple!'. But we had a look at many temples, a lot of temples...for two days. But it was totally worth it! In the evening we had dinner at the riverside in a restaurant called 'Mango Tree' (not in the other restaurant called 'Reggae River'...a bunch of laid-back and also retarded hill-billie hippies were staying there (sorry bros^^)), had awesome Indian food and drinks and went back afterwards to our guest house in the middle of Hampi. In the morning we went back to the same restaurant and had awesome food like pancakes, sandwiches etc. amazing... Afterwards we rented two scooters and had a funny day-tour with the scooters, off- and on-track, which was really really nice :) Since I was riding one of the scooters for the whole day on an Indian road, I have to admit: Hampi is a safe place for tourists riding a scooter or sth. else. Don't try in Bangalore except you have undergone extensive training^^ In the evening we hopped on the Sleeper Bus and arrived in Bangalore the next morning.
This was the framework for an awesome trip! The following pics should fill the story!
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