Hampi

Hampi

I have been having flashbacks to my time travelling ('the good old days'). While I am doing something mundane WHAM, a memory creeps up on me, playing in my head as clearly as if I was right there in the moment.  I can't control it and it has no relation to what I am doing at the time. 

Is this how someone feels who dropped too much acid in the past?

Then yesterday my friend started talking about deja vu.

In a flash I saw the small town of Hampi in my minds eye.  This magical place lies about 9 hours west of Goa, in the heartland of India.  For once there is no mystery behind my sudden memory - it is where I experienced my one and only true case of deja vu.    

Hampi:  a small town predating and outlasting Vijayanagara, the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire which was desecrated by the Deccan Muslim’s in 1565.  Now only an eclectic scattering of ruins from this ancient capital remain, but on a landscape so incredible that there is beauty at every turn.  Beneath bright sunlight and a dazzling blue sky lie huge, naturally spherical boulders and colourfully striped rock; it feels like wandering around an episode of The Flintstones.

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