Me and Reggie

Today the 3 of us had a great time walking bare-foot along the deserted beach and swimming in the sea for the majority of the day before heading to the travel agents to sort out train tickets for the rest of our stay in India.

Me and Reggie in the sea

Our footprints on the beach

This proved to be a lot more difficult than first anticipated as we are here over Christmas and New Year so most trains are full. So after a few hours we left and re-thought our route which took hours.

written by  chrischarly on November 27, 2010 from Cannanore, India
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A lighthouse

A British Cannon

A lovely view

Another nice view

Chris imitating a statue

Us walking through the fort

A man showing off his catch to us!

A heron or a stork ??

Today we hired a rick-shaw to give us a tour around Kannur stopping at St. Angelo Fort which was constructed in 1505 by the Dutch where there are still canons left behind by the British and underground jails.

A lovely Mangrove walk, but too many Mozzies

A pretty bridge

A View from the top of the fort

The Fort

Graffiti on leaves

3 men fishing with rubber rings!

We then went to Parassinikadavu Temple which is famous for a religious dance performed every morning and evening. However, we didn’t understand it and due to being pushed and shoved constantly we soon went outside and watched the locals bathe themselves in the river at the bottom; I think it was considered Holy water??

written by  chrischarly on November 27, 2010 from Cannanore, India
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Mysore palace

a tiger monument

the palace

the palace gates in the day

Cows on the road

Cows munching on rubbish

Then as our friend Reggie really wanted to go and visit Hampi she hired a car to take us there and for a very small bargain Price we joined her!

giving a local school boy a lift

us driving through a shallow river

the car that took us from Mysore- Hampi

The journey was 11 hours long and we travelled all through the night but although tiring was a far better way to travel than on a night bus which would have taken a great deal longer.

written by  chrischarly on November 29, 2010 from Mysore, 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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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

and another...

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Queens bath

and another...

an ancient stone monument

and another...

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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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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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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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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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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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