The original posts are here and there.
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- Stain around the staircase in the hotel in Hubli – it’s probably not blood, just results from spitting chewed paan (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paan).
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- Hampi
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- The main temple in Hampi.
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- A cat in the temple
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- Repairing the temple
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- The temple elephant Lakshmi
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- … eating a banana (she likes cononuts as well and can easily open one by holding it in her trunk and banging it against the ground).
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- Bananas on sale
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- and on a tree
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- They draw these signs in front of houses to ward off evil spirits.
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- Beware of the wheerpool!
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- The thin columns nicely resonate.
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- A small hidden shrine
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- Ruins surrounded by the jungle (or banana trees)
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- I forgot what this buiding was for :)
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- but it’s beatiful!
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- Hanuman’s temple on the top of a hill
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- Hanuman, the monkey god, was born here (as well as in other 4 places elsewhere).
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- with the mark on the forehead
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- One day I borrowed a high-quality bike – it even won prices in France and Switzerland! The brakes didn’t work much, but the bike was quite slow, so it didn’t matter much.
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- I went to the small Anegundi village. This is the old palace there.
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- I think these marks may be related to the fierce goddess Kali.
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- I had a wonderful lunch in a smal local restaurant.
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- Want to play?
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- Sunset over the rice fields
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- A shrine to Siva. The thing in the middle is lingam, one of his representations.
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- Cows and pigs eat anything,
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- even a poster.
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- Truck full of people
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- The boats across the river often get very full!
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- A poster for a hotel, I guess…
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