India Preview - Hampi

Some info on a place Vaidya are going to during my trip in India... A friend of hers is going to be a lil' tour guide for us in Hampi. Here's what he has to say about it...

Hi Vaidya,Nice to hear from you. I was remembering you some timeback when i was planning my trip to Hampi. It will be my pleasure to show you the site. I will be there. Before i say any thing on the trip i should give you abrief introduction.

Its a vast Archaeological Site of which only the Coreis 25 Sqkms. In the Last 20 years there is a lot of research by a dedicated team of Archaeologists,Architects, Art Historians etc. (For more details seethis web site: www.vijayanagara.org). You will get anessence of the kind of research happening on the site for the last 20 years. In short i should say that itwas one of the biggest cities in the world during15th, 16th centuries, a METROPOLIS.

It was declared as a world Heritage site in the year1986 as a group of Monuments considering the outstanding universal values of the site. However itsa site in distress because of the haphazarddevelopments.What you can see on the site today of the erst whileVijayanagara kingdom is only parts of the excavated sites. Rest is all Archaeological. Therefore its veryimportant for a visitor like you to get a correctunderstanding of the site with in your short visit.Ican help you in that.