One of the other sites we found in Madurai… a Sci-Fi themed bar in the Supreme Hotel!14-Nov-2009 17:15, Panasonic DMC-TZ6, 3.3, 4.1mm, 0.008 sec, ISO 100
Our penultimate stop in India, Madurai; the oldest inhabited city on the Indian peninsula. Home to the magnificent Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple it was definitely one of those places we picked almost purely based on the photo of the humongous Gopuras stretching to the sky like a scene from Blade Runner. The entire time we were there we saw hardly any other travellers, and even then only on a package tour. It certainly wasn’t set up for backpackers to visit en masse. This was made very evident when a quick forage for some emergency toilet roll (often not supplied with the room) turned into an unsuccessful ninety minute sprint around the town just to find it simply isn’t for sale! How did we find the elusive bum paper? Was the temple everything it promised? Was anything else squeezed in before we headed to Thailand!?
The awesome Virupaksha temple rearing up from the centre of Hampi town.11-Nov-2009 06:04, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 5.0, 38.0mm, ISO 800
Having escaped the threat of a torrential ten days in Goa, we arrived late afternoon in Hampi, a famed area chockablock with ruins and history, as well as being a chilled out spot that allegedly some find very difficult to leave. I expected swathes of dry desert liberally sprinkled with boulders; we actually found grass, palm trees, great bushes of flowers, and of course rocks and sand although this wasn’t immediately obvious as we arrived to blackened clouds, torrential downpour and no power to the whole town. From the relative safety of a candle lit roof top restaurant, only the occasional fit of lightning reminded us that if the world was coming to an end, it still existed for now. Did the deluge of water stop? Would our successful run of no Delhi belly continue? Would I eat something that didn’t involve a curry?
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