I always wanted to write a travelogue. I mean I do several roadtrips, many a times while passing through the undiscovered paths myriad thoughts come to my mind and I so wish to pen them down, but oops! my fingers are busy patting the steering wheel of my car to the tune I am humming while I drive through these roads, and hence I cannot do it then. By the time I come back from my trip, my best friend - 'Laziness' has already over-powered my desire to write...
So here I am sitting alone in my apartment at precisely 04:12 am in the morning, and have decided to ditch my 'Laziness' friend and get to writing or typing. (I sometimes really wonder, we don't write anymore, we type.... anyways sorry! - back to the travelogue)
My eyes were drowsy after 373 kilometres, body aching to all those multiple cramps when we finally found the route to our Guest house in Anegundi... I was shocked when the kid wearing his grand father's nickers pointed out the direction to me. There was no road and he wanted me to drive through the dry river bed of Tungabhadra....There in front of us, elegantly stood, the oldest bridge I had ever seen, it belonged to the Krishna Devaraya Dynasty and I really don't know how old but definitely must be from the B.C. times. We obviously couldn't drive over it and had to take a kaccha route adjacent to it. Strange, people back then could build a bridge, but now - a much more modern era and no bridge.... Anyways, the sight of that monument was nostalgic. It took away all the fatigue... Everyone in the car froze in time, as if we had traveled back in time....
Traveling back in time, let me take you guys to where it all began. The Diwali weekend was fast approaching and I was not going home for it. We had 3 days off and I really wanted to hit the highway as I had not done that for a long long time...
Google.com - The ace travel guru - Helped me find my destination. A 300 to 400 km drive, Asia's biggest and oldest archaeological remains, and the pictures of Shanti Guest House were reasons big enough to go to Hampi.
To be continued..... (And the laziness takes over!)
Cheers,
Dipankar
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