Hampi.

Reasons to go there: a Canon EOS 66 that strayed into the hands, and the associated newbie enthusiasm. Childhood stories, those appeared in the erstwhile Poompatta (Novels for kids: Hakkanum Bukkanum and Thungabhadra, by K V Ramanath IIRC.) So I push Raju, Raju gathers more people, and off we set to Hampi, on that funny passenger train. I would be filmless during the journey, so I would grab Ammavan aka Binu's Sony and click. (That is the picture in the previous post.)

Our modus operandi was just great: there's Hampi, and there's Thungabhadra dam, and there are the cave temples in Badami. We just go wherever we feel like. Not quite the true hitchhiker way, the yuppie-ish way rather.

I don't quite feel like researching and recording everything, but I have some notes and a few pictures to show off. (I don't dare to display the rest of the entire two rolls in public. As you would see - if you go behind the cut - I have a hell lot to learn on this.)

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