We leave Margeon by train. The trip lasted almost 7 hours. There are 3 beds on each wall and we reserved the bed closest to the ceiling and the one in the middle. We found out that the one in the middle doesn't exist during the day, it serves as the back of a big seat which is the lower bed. In theory, there supposed to be 3 persons sitting on that bench. We had during the trip from 4-5 people sitting there and one person laying down on the upper bed. They are so thight in other compartment that they decided to invade the comfy section! It is hot and we can smell the toilets continuously. Our brain don't like doing abstraction of that smell for some reasons. I tried to sleep for the most part of the trip to avoid all that smell, heat, questions and cell phones playing very loud Indian music. The problem is that our backpacks are on the top bed as well which doesn't leave that much room up there. I squeezed in the best i could with my legs on top of the bags and my hips against the railing. I knew that my body would protest after that treatment. My back was soar for few days not allowing me to sleep and i had bruises on the hips from the banging against the railing. Since we were going to Hampi to do some climbing i got into my pharmacy kit and took muscle relaxant pills. I felt a little dizzy the first morning, it's strong!
We spent the first night in downtown Hampi it sounded like. We had a room with 2 windows opening up on 2 different alleys. People went to bed very late and they seemed to have a competition on the noise they could make. I used my iPod for the first time in India.
We decided to change room to get closer to the climbing spot. We had to cross the river with a ferry which is more of a small boat able to sit maybe 20 people. It's a paradise for climbers so we drop our bags and rented a crashpad and hop we go. We met up with 2 american girls (Rob was happy). OUCH! My muscles, well i thought i had muscles... I am so weak at the end of the day...my arms feel heavy, my hands have cramps and my skin is scratched and its burning. I needed some rest really bad and miracle! It was raining the next morning. We ended up climbing only few hours which was enough. We spent the next day touring temples. Hampi has great landscapes with boulders everywhere and the temples were actually interesting to visit. Even after that rest day, we are not fit to climb again so we decide to leave for Badami, that would give one more day to my skin to get better! Oh la la! When we got to the ferry, there was more than a hundred people waiting to cross. There was a festival going on in town. We thought we would have to wait about an hour since everytime that more people arrived, they went to the front of the line. Eventually, faster than we thought anyway, we succeeded in cutting in, we had our backpacks and were taking a lot of space. People are almost fighting to get in the boat so when we tried to get onboard, the boat was moving non-stop. I untied my bag from my hips because i was sure to end up in the water!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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