Hampi trip- A visit to lost kingdom -Day1

       By August 2015 I had planned a trip to  Hampi .It was a  weekend trip for 3 days.I had booked Hampi Express  which starts from  Mysore by evening and reaches Hospet nearest station to hampi  on next morning.
Accomodation
I had booked room in Hampi International which was walk able distance from railway station.Room rent was around 1600 rs in makemytrip.com for a beautiful double bedroom.
Day1 
After having cold shower .I had visited their restaurant.  It was a bar cum restaurant with sugar cane fields backside of it. I had a good breakfast of masala dosa and coffee.

 I then boarded bus to Hampi. Since it was solo trip wanted to make sure I didn't  spend much on other things except accommodation. I took bus from Hospet to Hampi which is around 12 km.

Bus passes through town of busy town  hospet . Then were some some villages and green fields before bus reaches  Hampi.
Hampi -Virupakaha temple
My first destination was Virupaksha temple on banks on beautiful Tungabatra.
Virupaksha temple had hills around which had small temples and mandapas. Daily worship still happens here.This is closest to bus stand. I had to avoid more than 10 guides to go into temple.My guides were internet and common people.

Arrival of a skill and a tool
My new mobile  oneplus one provided me with super clear pics of hampi of 16 mpixels  and gave me a feel  that finally photographic sense and a magic tool had arrived to me.

Madanga Hills and Jain temples  Closer to virupaksha temple was there were hemakunda hills.
You could easily climb around to see beautiful small temples like  Mustard ganapathi, Kadekal ganapathi,Jain temples and numerous structures are around temple.It took me couple of hours in these hill go around.Few minutes I could feel  how things and time have their played parts in this place.

Stomach of ganapthis are like Mustard and kadekal.

Riverside ruins
I had lunch in a lane closer to virpaksha temple .There is riverside way that goes towards famous vittala temple.Way to this place is awesome walk on banks of Tungabhadra.

                                        A natural fortess

                                       
Purandara mantap 
One place not to miss out is purandra dasa mantap. Purandara dasa ,  a legend  of  music used sit in river banks of tunga and create numerous lot of music compositions  here.Going  through his lifetime and contributions to  Carnatic music in wikipedia made me to visit this place twice on subsequent days of trip.

                                              Musical vibes are subtle here..

Kings balance
Next place is Kings balance.There is where offerings to god are weighed equals  to one's weight and given .

Achutarya temple
Then there are remains of  beautiful Achutarya temple which has large pushakarni. The huge place was mostly empty except a security guard and a foreigner.Tower were broken.Once beautiful place of vijayanagar kingdom now looks like old king who has lost all his youth still has that grace of emperor.

                                                        broken towers of achutarya temple.

                                               Achutarya pushkarni

There is also Varaha temple, vishnu temple  on this riverside way to vittala .
Vittala temple and Musical pillars
Then I reached to Vittala temple. On the left corner of temple complex there is a  mantap that hosts musical pillars. They can create music from its hollow stones.There is famous stone chariot here inspired from Konark sun chariot.

                                  Musical pillars of vittala temple.

                                         Famous chariot of vittala temple.Symbol of Karnataka heritage.

I walked again back to virupaksha temple.Sat on banks of tungabhadra watching sunset.