Journey to the ancient kingdom of monkeys: Hampi 2

Maybe you guys are familiar with my previous post of me and my friends trip to the ancient kingdom of monkeys: Hampi, if not than I suggest to give it a look first, it's actually interesting.

Where to go ?

So it was the last year when me and my friends planned to visit hampi for a change and in between that I have been to a lot of places but not with these friends, so again we were discussing to go out somewhere for two days and when we say two days then only one place comes in our mind 'Hampi'. The reason behind this destination selection is that we all are working in corporate offices and we only get a handful of leaves and the nearest place to Hyderabad for a two days visit is only Hampi and apart from circumstances, Hampi is a great place indeed, you can visit that place once in a year, if you would ask me to visit it again, I would do that without a question (Given, you handle all my expenses, lol). So we all decided to visit Hampi.

Lotus Mahal 

When we entered Hampi and relaxed for like one hour we decided to visit the places in Hampi which were unable to visit last year. We asked a bunch of localities for the famous places here and they all insisted to visit Lotus mahal once, so we headed there and it was across the river, its a 2 minutes distance from one shore to another on a boat. When we arrived there I was amazed to find such a marvelous piece of architecture at that point of time back in the 17th century. Actually I was feeling proud to find that this building was build by our country's workers and Architects back in that time they were so skilled and if you visit the place in the night it is a beauty to watch in the dark.

Lotus Mahal is named after the lotus flower like shape and its unmistakable design.

It is said that the King krishna deva's wife used to visit Lotus mahal a lot, seeking pleasure and peace. The mahal was also used to as a meeting place between the ministers and the King.

According to the 18th century maps, Lotus Mahal was mentioned as the council chamber of Hampi.

Lotus Mahal is one of the building which was not destroyed in the attacks of abid.

Elephant Stables

After a mind peaceful visit of Lotus Mahal, we started our journey for the Elephant Stables of Hampi, it is also one of the few not demolished buildings of Hampi. This is a long building with 11 big doomed chambers which were used to park the royal elephants at that time, some of the chambers were interconnected with a central big chamber probably for the bands or musicians for the Elephant ceremonies.

There were metal hooks on the inside of the doom roofs which were probably used to tie the elephants in the chambers and a manhole type openings in the rear of the chamber, maybe for the mahouts to enter the elephant chambers.

The dinner

After such an adventurous journey we all came back to our booked hotel rooms and we were very hungry and ready to taste the south Indian style food

The food was very tasty, we were served a full platter of different dishes and after a tummy full of food we were in our beds.

Stone Chariot

There are many facts associated with the Chariot of Lord Vishnu. This may appear as a monologue structure but the chariot was build by attaching large blocks of granite stones together and the joints were smartly engraved in the design of Chariot

Musical Pillars of Ranga Mantapa

We were amazed by the science applied to these 56 pillars of Ranga Mantapa, they are also called saregama pillars, each pillar have seven small pillars and each of them produce a different sound when gently touched with fingers or sandal stick. When mughals came they burnt down the pillars, reducing their decibel power. When the British came they even cut down two of the pillars to actually find out that what is the technology behind this or is this just natural phenomena, but the pillars turned out to be hollow. When a geological analysis was done on them, there was a presence of metallic ore and silica in them, which in turns produces different sound notes whenever wind blows even through these pillars. It was just amazing to encounter such a great event happening in front of us and those sounds coming out of the pillars were such a music to the ears.

Thankyou for reading and viewing my photography.

---

View this post on TravelFeed for the best experience.