Hampi!

Had a few problems with the buses. Really surprising, I know.
I spent half the journey pulling my hair out with grief while the bus was stopped for no tangible reason and my friends had knocked themselves out with sleeping pills.
But we arrived and it led, as all buses do, to yet another incredible place. Hampi is a good few hectares of ancient Hindu ruins which were once home to a whole civilisation. There are temples, ancient markets, all sorts. 50p hired us a bike for the day and we cycled around the sites in the searing heat. At one point a gardner decided to make an extra Rs 10 by dropping his hose and giving us a guided tour of an underground passageway.
It's full of banana trees, temples, oddly balanced rocks and laziness.

Today we got a guy to give us a lift up the stream on his Moses style reid basket boat. There are loads of temples and meditation building ruins at the side of the river. If you were big on meditation, they would probably be the best places to do it in the world. We also saw the place Hanuman was born. Hanuman is a big deal. There are 36,000,000 Gods and Hanuman is in the top 5 most popular. His face is still in one of the rock formations.

It's been a good little excursion away from Goa. We're back there tomorow. Back to the beaches.