Haunting Hampi

Hampi Vijayanagara Samrajya Hampi has been on my dream trip list for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the same state; ten years after leaving it is finally when I went to say hello. And what an overwhelming embrace I walked into! I had tried to read and watch as much…

Belur & Halebidu

The travel bug bit only when I was well into my twenties, a while after I'd flown the nest. So if someone asked me for great things to do in my home state right now, I would draw a complete, stupid blank. Sad, but true. My fascination with old monuments, associated history and vivid imagination…