Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Hampi in Pictures I

Hampi - Rocks
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The first of the many temples that dot the landscape
Hampi - Muhamaddan Watchtower, Mosque
The building on the left was once a mosque, while the one on the right was called the Muhammadan watchtower - evidence that the Hindu rulers and the Mughals did once coexist here, even if tenuously
Hampi - Muhammadan Watchtower
The watchtower
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A break in the wall to the left of the mosque
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The view through the wall
hampi underground shiva temple
The outermost sanctum of the underground Shiva Temple
hampi old woman in the shiva temple
I was too scared to go in alone so she guided me through the temple into the innermost sanctum; dark, damp and overrun by bats
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Little girl outside the temple
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Lakshmi Narasimha Temple. Narasimha means half-man, half-lion in Sanskrit
hampi - flower seller
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Living in urban India, it's easy to forget how colourful the country really is
monkeys in hampi
Hampi is the site of the mythological kingdom Kishkinda, where the Hindu god Hanuman is said to have been born. The place is still overrun by monkeys today
hampi monkeys 2
hampi monkeys 3
hampi monkeys 4

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