where we stayed in Hampi

the awesome bar/ restaurant

Finally deciding to leave the relaxing and beautiful Hampi we booked our tickets for a sleeper couch to Gokarna.

me working hard on this blog

where we are staying

the courtyard

The coach we had been told has real beds! However, always been a little dubious we will wait and see if that really happens!

Ginger asleep

the boulders

Sharmilla our landlady

So in the evening we stayed up pretty late celebrating our last night in Hampi with a couple of friends.

written by  chrischarly on December 9, 2010 from Hampi, India
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rocks that look like they will fall off!!!

again, lovely views...

monkeys playing

The boulder

Our friend Adrian climbing the boulders

getting there

almost there

made it!

Goan Corner

Today we spent most of the day attempting to find places to stay over the next month using a website that we’ve recently heard of called ‘Couch Surfers’ which is where we can stay at locals House’s for free! Yep that’s right for absolutely nothing!! Perfect for us poor backpackers!! So after a little searching we found a nice family to stay with over Christmas in Jaipur where prices for accommodation normally sky-rocket!

written by  chrischarly on December 8, 2010 from Hampi, India
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a relatively clean river in Hampi

women washing their clothes and theirselves

a man having a wash in a fast-flowing river

Acheived hardly anything...

'Quality ice-cream

Perfect!!..

written by  chrischarly on December 7, 2010 from Hampi, India
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monkeys

One of the 4 frogs found in our room

Chris always being the one to share kindly passed it on to me as well by the end of the day, so as well as relaxing we spent the day feeling pretty shitty and sorry for ourselves :(

written by  chrischarly on December 6, 2010 from Hampi, India
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our accomodation in Hampi

The rocks look like they will fall off!

so peaceful up here

gorgeous view from this high!

sunset

the rocks Mum thinks look like ducks!

I didn't exactly like the thought of climbing rocks almost as high as myself so thought I would let him try it out before I decided to go up !!

written by  chrischarly on December 5, 2010 from Hampi, India
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our back garden

view from our room

It is like we are in the middle of the countryside in India where there's little if any rubbish scattered everywhere, pretty idyllic if not perfect !!

written by  chrischarly on December 4, 2010 from Hampi, India
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putting a very expensive&very heavy bike on a small boat- only way to cross!

trying to re-start the bike

Pushing the very heavy bike up the hill

To get accross we had to take a small boat and when it rains heavily means that you get completely cut off from the main land.

the walk down to the ferry

in the middle of no where

the ferry crossing

However as soon as we went across we were in no hurry to leave finding an awesome place for an awesome Price !!

written by  chrischarly on December 3, 2010 from Hampi, India
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giving the rip-off elephant 10 rupees

the elephant giving his owner my money

being blessed by an elephant

being blessed by an elephant

It was quite funny as a local Indian could give the elephant 1 rupee in exchange for a blessing by the elephant, but a tourist has to give at least 10 rupees, aka a note instead of a coin in order to be blessed!

children begging me to take their photo

one of the many photos taking of the children- obsessed with having their photo taken

Thus the elephant could tell the difference between a local and a tourist! A true Indian making us pay at least 10x more for an attraction! But it was funny!

Afterwards we went to go and see a temple at the top of a hill where we climbed 675 steps to see some pretty amazing views of the whole of Hampi.

the temple at the top of the hill

Half way there- already exhausted!

the steps we climbed

the view from the 675 steps

another nice view

A monkey admiring the view with us

all hot and bothered looking like a beetroot after the climb

the not-so-amazing temple at the top

The temple was pretty disappointing and it was seriously hard work but we were in fact very proud of ourselves for making it the whole way!

written by  chrischarly on December 2, 2010 from Hampi, India
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climbing over rocks to see yet another temple

and to see another...

a photo taken of a film set before we got thrown out!

me stood in a doorway in an elephant's stable

me attempting to hide from Chris

one of many monumenets we've seen

and another...

a scary-looking monkey

a chariot

the sacred bull

another religious building

the elephant's stable

a temple

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Queens bath

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an ancient stone monument

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a seriously erotic stone monument

where we saw 2 snakes! One dead. One alive!

(Email me if you would like to see the photos)

The latter apparently being quite special as it is said to have 2 heads; one at each end! The locals were amazed at the fact that we saw one, calling us very lucky, even though it was pretty close and very scary!

Then late afternoon we went to the Sloth Bear Sanctuary where we saw 6 wild Sloth Bears.

a bear licking honey from a rock

a sloth bear

2 sloth bears

Even though they were quite far away it was pretty amazing!

written by  chrischarly on December 1, 2010 from Hampi, India
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Local school children

Me surrounded by a local school

sweet children

As soon as we arrived in Hampi; unwilling to search for accommodation we stayed at the first place we came across. It was pretty cheap and in a very relaxing place but also pretty dirty.

We later understood why as we saw a young boy around 6 or 7 years old servicing the rooms. No wonder the sink was filthy, there was no way her could even reach it!

Local boys

Local Boys

some of the many men desperate for our photo- we took one of them instead

Chris negotiating the 10 rupees payment for a photo

During the day we were hassled quite a lot for our photo to be taken by many Indians that Chris has now started charging 10 rupees per picture taken of us! Hilarious! Some Indians even put their hand in their pockets about to pay us before our conscience kicks in!

written by  chrischarly on November 30, 2010 from Hampi, India
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