Wednesday, August 16, 2006

TRIP TO HAMPI (I)

A rumour.. a trip to Hampi, city of temples, next week-end, from friday to wednesday morning. I want to be there too.. I join in !
3 german girls, 2 german guys and 5 french men.
After 3 hours at the ticket's office, we've got our train tickets for 400 Rs/person (12 CHF) for a >20 hours travel for >600 km distance. What Fun !!

In the train
Philippe & Pablo Andre & Amre Me & Mara
Philippe & Julian Me & My red head sister Judith Pablo & a child

Hampi is in the middle of the "Jungle Book" environment... Monkeys, Leopards, Elephants & Snakes. There are several millions temple in the area: tenples for Shiva, Vishnu or Ganesh...

Temples of Hampi
2nd biggest Ganesh sculpture
One of Vishnu's reincarnation (as a lion)
One day, 2 sisters were sitting on the mountain, saying that Hampi was a strange city. Vishnu didn't appreciate that so he turned the 2 girls to stone...

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