HAMPI, India (Reuters Life!) - A visit to Hampi, a historical town tucked away among the hills in Northern Karnataka, is a step back in time. Situated beside the Tungabhadra river, Hampi was an ...

On the banks of India’s Tungabhadra river, strewn across craggy hills and lush plains dotted with massive granite boulders, lie the remains of grandiose monuments at Hampi. The Vijayanagar kingdom ...

The most budget‑friendly way to get to Hampi is by train or overnight bus to Hospet (Hosapete), the nearest major town, ...

I peered over the edge of the Queen’s Bath, an immaculate, now-empty pool where the ladies of one of India’s great empires once used to bathe. Then my guide, Kumar, pointed outside. “That’s the moat,” ...

In the shadow of the Virupaksha Temple, which lies at the heart of medieval Hampi, local residents and pilgrims celebrate the marriage of Virupaksha to the goddess Pampa by pulling a ceremonial ...

I hadn’t planned on posting to my blog during a three-week vacation in India. Then something so outrageous happened that I simply had to write about it. I had traveled with friends to Hampi, a ...

Most people don’t associate the monuments of Hampi, left over from a once-thriving civilization in a remote corner of the South Indian state of Karnataka, with the same level of grandeur as the Taj ...

Hampi is India's largest World Heritage Site thanks to the most beautiful and evocative of all temples and ruins in the Karnataka region. Once the capital of the Vijayanagar kingdom, Hampi is full of ...

Twenty-third session of the Committee – paragraph number – X.33. New information: No official response has been received concerning the actions taken by the State Party to remove the threats facing ...

First ICOMOS-World Heritage Centre reactive monitoring mission in 2000; expert technical assessment mission in 2001; World Heritage Centre and experts advisory missions in 2003 and 2004; ICOMOS-World ...