Bangalore- Hampi-Mysore

Day 0
There is a background to how this trip started. So we had a 3 day pongal weekend.. 15-16-17 january. deepti however booked tickets thinking we had an off on friday, 14th...thus i had to take an off on friday while i am exteremly short on holiday....what with having to complete my thesis and attend a friend's wedding in rourkela (abbe yaar, rourkela mei shaadi kaun karta hai)
khair, so we left chennai on thursday night and went to bangalore. it was a sleeper bus and we slept well, not so soundly but reached bangalore early morning.

Day 1
We called Ajay and asked him for directions to his house and slept 3 hours straight at his house. Later, his mother made some yummy food and we ate and we ate. Then we left to go to Forum mall to meet Altaf!
It my friends is a paap to travel in bangalore. I swear, it took us 2 hours to reach the mall and there we met Altaf for an hour. Poor fellow, he came with us in one auto to Ajay's home where we ate some more, did loads of ajay bitching (i think that is my favorite past time).
Then Ajay dropped us to the station and we boarded the train to Hospet.
there was one beautiful punjabi aunty but she was so bossy..constant bak bak in the train. fir hum so gaye..

Day 2
We reached hospet in the morning, found an auto which would take us around hampi for the whole day sightseeing. We first went and freshened up in a lodge and had tea and idli. Now started the Hampi tour.
We went to the main temple and then went for a walk behind the temple where there was a ganesh temple and other structures. The view was magnificent, mesmerising. You know the feeling of being small/inconsequential that i feel when i am close to the ocean, i felt similarly in the ruins.
from the hill, you see all the stones, stone houses, broken stones, everything, making you feel how vast and powerful the empire was once upon a time, how you leave everything behind when you leave this world..how things which were super powerful once upon a time are just ruins now. Mitti se aakar mitti mei mil jana hai!!
Next, we looked at the krishna temple, hampi bazaar, krishna bazaar, its awesome!! totally awesome..We kept meeting a family at all these places who took some great pictures of deepti and me.
Now we went to the Shiv temple after this our auto did not start..we had nariyal pani till the auto walas together resolved the problem...
We then went to the watch tower, elephant stables and museum..
We looked at the queen's bath from outside and then went to the area where the dance performances were held. mountains on one side, trees on the other, stones on the third..by now we were very hungry.. the auto wala took us to a buffet place where we ate to our fill...
after this we went to the temple where the rath is.. behind this temple, the river flows and hanuman temple can be seen.. we also saw the round boats that are a must sight at hampi..
we reached the station by 8 and boarded the train to bangalore..we dozed off soon..

Day 3
We took the train to mysore in the morning..for some reason i checked the tickets and they were for 16th feb..shit. i told deepti and she called vinod who booked us new correct tickets. thank god. we went to a lodge, took a bath and then an autowala took us to chamundi hill where we had no intention of going. the view from the hill was pretty awesome..we could see the church, the museum, the lake..we also paid a visit to nandi..
we had mysore masala dosa, took a print out of the fresh tickets and decided to go the museum...
we met a ghodagadi..it was a sweet driver who dropped us to the museum..we went inside and took photos everywhere in every pose possible. we didnt go inside.. at 5, we went to the station and boarded our train to bangalore..
finally we boarded our bus to chennai and reached home..