Two great temple towns all in one!

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We woke up really early so that we could leave Hassan as fast as possible... So we headed to Halebid first and then Belur. The temples here are extraordinary!

Something has come to our attention, in India it's always time to go to school. This was no exception the bus between Belur and Halebid was packed with children. Well, ok, at around nine am it would be normal to catch your regular school bus but the thing is that irregardless of time (until 4 pm) every time buses are full of children... And leaving the bus in front of the school so they are not just commuting...

They must have taken dozens of photos of them and in every kind of pose and in the end the french not only said thank you but I think they also gave them some money..

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Belur is larger than Halebid and more turisty it seems, the regular hawks around us saying "Taxi, Taxi" "Hello, Hello" "Where do you come from?" "can I take a picture of your girlfriend to put in my room?" - "well sure go ahead!"... We really cannot get used to this and sometimes you have to be rude to them or they won't let you go anywhere without them! There was this guy who tried to take a picture of Helena pretending to be taking ione of a temple, We said "NO" so he tried again at a distance... Seeing that he was not in luck with us he turned to a group of french (2 girls and one boy). They must have taken dozens of photos of them and in every kind of pose and in the end the french not only said thank you but I think they also gave them some money...(maybe not but hey, you never know!).

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The autorickshaw guy next to the exit of the temple asked 20 R for the return to the Bus Stand, we knew this was too much it was under a Km, so I said 10, he replied there was a minimum charge of 12 R that was settled by the State (ah another thing they do here a lot is use the State's good name for any kind of scam, like having a private touristic agency selling State bus tickets at double the price and saying they work for the Government, ludicrous...). Ok we walked maybe 10-20 mts and this other guy accepted to take us for 10 (oops hope the State is not reading...).

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We got to our Bus for a direct trip to Mysore, 4 and a half hours... After a very bumpy ride on the "highway" (that's right here every goat's path is a national highway or so it seems) we got to Mysore, "the city of palaces".