Goa to Bangalore

Day 6: The Tour de Hampi

25th September 2009

The fun part of any trip to some old temple town is to see the place after you have been taken the rounds by the customary guide is to do it again on bicycles and to our great joy (not so much for our rusty bones) it is great fun.

 The bazaar offers bicycles for 40 rupees for the whole day and after a day of strenuous cycling you can chill out at Mango Tree (a beautiful rock cut restaurant situated in the middle of a banana plantation facing the Tungabhadra river) or at any of the rooftop cafes. 

For our money, Durga café was the best with its quite good food and very friendly host. Kishkinda, the ancient name for Hampi in olden times is treated as the birth place of Hanumana and the hill top where he is supposed to be born is situated across the river at a place called Anegudi.  This was our last day at Hampi before taking the night train to Bangalore.