Badami

Badami is not so much of a tourist destination. We haven’t seen that many other white faces while we walked the streets. We became an attraction for all the locals but mostly for Indien tourist coming to visit the cave’s temples. There are only 4 caves and it should not take that long to visit usually. We have been asked so many times if they could take our picture! The funniet thing is more that they want to take a picturewith us but using our cameras! We could not simply stop for 5 minutes to admire the view since we were causing a jam in the stairs. After 3 hours of that, we thought it was a little crazy and my cheeks were hurting from all that smiling which was a bit forced at the end.


The reason why we decided to go to Badami was for its red sandstone cliffs. We had read in our guide book that there was a climbing school where we thought we could rent a rope. Well, it existed at some point but was no longer there. We saw from far away 2 guys dangling from a rope on one of the cliff, Andrew and Harry (same Harry that made a topo for the climbing in Hampi...small world!), and they allowed Rob to get a shot at the problem they were doing. Lack of muscles from his last 6 months of travelling didn’t allow him to get to the top. I have great pictures of that but he said it would be blackmailing and he would take revenge. I decided not to try since my muscles haven’t appeared yet.

We decided to stay only for 2 nights promising ourselves that we would come back with gears but especially muscles. We feel like we haven’t rested enough maybe and so, we choose a destination on the coast, Om beach of Gokarna.