It’s a question anyone making a visit needs to find an answer to: would it be better to stay in Hospet or stay in Hampi? My solution was simple: do both. We were arriving on Independence Day and I didn’t fancy trying to find a hotel in Hampi just in case it was really busy … Read more
Yesterday we went on a tour of some of the 500 temples, palaces and buildings in Hampi, most of which are between 500 and 800 years old. We hired a rickshaw driver from the area who calls himself Patrick just to distinguish himself from the rest of the drivers. Most of the places here in … Read more
Didn’t get time to upload this short video in my previous post:
This morning we had a great experience: we went to the bathing ghats to watch Lakshmi the Elephant from the nearby temple have a wash and a good scrub. At 7am I got woken up by the sound of Daddy’s voice, he was saying to get clothes on quickly so we could go and watch … Read more
Today we visited the most talked about restaurant in the whole of Hampi, which to be fair doesn’t have many restaurants. We had no idea exactly where it was but Dad knew roughly the direction, so we just wandered off trying to see if we could find it. Walking along the riverside we noticed a … Read more
In some ways I didn’t want to stay at this place, a place my friends Madhu and Savita – of 10yearitch.com, but you know that, I’ve said that once or twice before right? – had recommended. I wanted to be responsible for finding somewhere for myself. Arriving in Hampi Bazaar went went here first, to … Read more
Visiting Hampi had been one of the things I’d most been looking forward to on this trip although I’d originally only planned to spend two nights in this area. How grateful I am to a lot of my IndiaMike friends who told me I was mad; that they’d spent four days here and it wasn’t … Read more