Hampi...the busride, the monkeys and the frog: 04.january.2005

Leaving Goa to Hampi in a crazy busride. Just for you to know, Hampi own one of the most sacred temple over the centuries. The temple is dedicated to Shiva, known as Virupaksha...but after the busride first of all Hampi was for us the realize from suffering !!!

Goa was cool, Goa was relax, Goa was easy, Goa was just to relaxing....its great but after a while you can become a Vegetable there, means just to hippy for us. The people after a while where to much passive and so we decided to move.
10 hours bus took us what Goa gave us: NRJ.

This 10 hour of the cheap bus, where a nightmare. Something different from the Bolivian bus I took with Lorenzo. First of all, I had to jump on the roof of the bus to lock our two backpack in case somebody want just to take it away in one of the stops. But as we will see it was a good choise also because the bags will have just jump out of the roof from their own thanx to the most broken street I ever saw. I mean it can be a street, but in 10 years maybie. Now it was just a path with big holes, dust and the big trucks that where passing us all the time. In this "killing-trucks" some of the most craziest Formel 1 driver with just an accelerator and no breaks. Inside our rolling-thing we get the baddest comfort ever. The seat were as hard as a beton block, adding to that they were for haft europeens.I develope.:

One Europeen = to 2 indians
in the size. So we ask for 2 seats, witch is for us 4 indians size. But they give us 2 indians seat, witch are of course one european size. To be clear, at the end Ludovic and me shared a single seat. I mean try to put two gorillas in a Austin Mini and you get what we get. No room to seat. But however, we manage it. Ludovic was close to the window and I close to the "coridor" filled with detritus and dust. As the bus leaved we enjoyed a 10 hours long ride. Ludo s head hit maybie 100 of times the metal cadre as he tried to sleep.

- coming in Hampi --- (l arrive (apres 10 heures dans le pire des bus))
- Hampi city
--- (Hampi la ville)
- great breakfast...finaly....in front of the rizplantation...a dream...
--- (le mega dej...enfin...face a la riziere paysage de reve. )
- Walk to the temple of the monkeys
--- la marche vers le temple des singes
- sun goes down
--- le coucher de soleil
- the monkeys
--- les singes
- coming back at night
--- retour de nuit
- the dead frog, smashed by ludo
--- le crapaud ecrase par ludo
- the restorant with the nepalian...relaxing
--- le resto avec le nepalais...ambiance relax
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