Traveling to Hampi

After a very delayed few trains from Arambol beach station, Thiva, to Madgaon Junction and then a very early morning train to Hampi taking about 5-9 hours we made it. (I'm definitely now addicted to the tea here. Not sure how il survive when we leave.)
Having not pre-booked our accommodation we were at the mercy of our auto rickshaw driver, who in the end took us to the right place we wanted, even though it was not initially obvious given the sign only had two letters still attached to the front of the building.
After a refresh we explored the monkey temple right next to us, which is still an active temple where we had to take off our shoes to enter. We just managed to see the temple's elephant departure to bed for the day.
Given it's getting up to 35°+ most days it was nice exploring while it was cool and didn't have the sun beating down on us. Even so the floor stones were still super warm to walk on.

I'm looking forward to seeing more tomorrow.Read more