"Soooooooooo glad you made it to Hampi. How magical??? It's like some sort of Indiana Jones theme park that's been abandoned and gradually people have moved in or something. Yeah, sacred cartoon man! Ha ha ha!!!" my friend who had visited Hampi a few months ago recently wrote me.
Hampi is a sacred cartoon. Straight out of the Flintstones. Centuries old temples amidst enormous boulder fields. Ruins everywhere, with a new world trying to build itself around them. Take the bus station: an open parking lot that happens to have a 14th century wall around it. Crazy. People bathing in the river, and hanging their clothes to dry on a sunken temple. Women busily tending to the rice paddies that are growing in between random old ruins.
And monkeys everywhere.
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