Have you ever contemplated the range of things you can do in Hampi? Like peeling off your sunglasses and filling your eyes with the natural hues of its ancientness, testing how greedy you are for glorious stories and details, and fifteen other things…
1. Melodic Mosaics.
Walk these pillared corridors and listen to the melodies that thrum deep within them, no less than your songs. Add a verse or two of your own.
2. Symphonic Structures.
In the precise geometric angles, corners, folds and depths, listen to the sighs and smiles of the creators that might slowly grow into chortles of completion, of fulfillment.
3. Whispered Wonders.
Listen, with seeing ears, and see, with listening eyes. Somewhere in the middle of ruin and grandeur is a place that harbours stories of sheer enchantment.
4. Boundless Exploration
Try. Question. Probe. How far can your eyes reach and how much can it hold in its voracious vision? How much can you fill yourself with what the world has to offer?
5. Symbolic Shadows.
Witness how shards of lights, illuminations, play with shadows, when the stones are crisply cold and full of symbolic importance.
6. Echoing Whispers
Listen carefully. What soft whispers did these sacred mantapas contain? What secrets echoed and went astray, carried away by an inquisitive wind?
7. Everlasting Heritage
Catch and weigh the intricacies that are maddeningly accurate in their forming, and resolute under forever-changing sky shades, preserving the past in the fragile present, to be conserved for tomorrow.
8. Radiant Riddles
See how the sun plays hide-and-seek with these pillars of mute monuments, making them narrate to you wordless stories.
9. Dawn and Dusk
On the prehistoric rocks stand these structures erected by men of honour, of art. Behold how these stones catch the fiery hues at the sunrise and the sunset hours.
10. Hampi Horizons
Indigo sky, blue sky, misty sky, bright sky, rosy sky, star-studded sky: experience the glorious, as Hampi allows itself to be under a forever sky.
11. Hidden Histories
Beneath the brilliance of this town, there is a story of war, bloodshed, violence and destruction, which isn’t often given the importance it deserves. Dig them out, for certain truths exist irrespective of our disregard.
12. Timeless Grandeur
Holler! Think what eyes of focus, what art of patience and what men of attention made every detail a palpable possibility! What fortunate beholders are we, to be able to live this timeless splendour!
13. Riverside Journey
Take to the oars when light falls on the waters and disintegrates like shards of glass, cross a river, let a bead of sweat trickle down your temple, reach the other shore, make your own story.
14. Shaded Oasis
When the temples and halls and statues are basking in the sun, seek the shade of infrequent trees: a respite, a pause to consider magnificence in stillness.
15. Elephant Stable
Sing. For this perfection is something akin to a prayer’s answer, a long-lost love song, a perpetual yearning for human excellence, an apex on top of which one wants to stand and beam a smile of delight.
Join our next Hampi Tour, and do all this and more!
