Hampi Warnings Or Dangers

Oh well, most cyber cafes do not have current antivirus & some cyber cafes even have more character where they don't have antivirus software at all.

If you're traveling with your portable USB drive for your long trip, do expect some viruses planting multiple .EXE files into every picture folders of yours. Even connecting your camera to computer via USB port or inserting your memory cards into card readers on those computers will potentially infecting your memory cards with software.exe files with multiple trojan horse type of viruses.

My personal photo media infected with no less than 500 viruses and some sticky irremovable .EXE files.


If you're transferring and burning all your pictures into CD-ROM at these cafes, make sure your personal PC/notebook back home is protected with the latest antivirus patterns before you popping in those photo CDs or your computer will have good collection of malicious viruses smuggled from India.

As you all know that hindi movies always featuring women with perfect t!ts and kids growing up with those fantasies since young age sometime causing them trying to touch you. If you're female travelers, do watch out for hands coming in outside the bus trying to molest you whenever the bus is stopping. If you're walking at overcrowded street, please remember to shield you front with your day sack.

You won't be surprise that some of those female sculptures will have really smooth surface around the breasts area. They are not specially crafted smooth on those areas, but they are handy jobs of some naughty boys.

- All bottled water is not the same.
- Make sure you buy only from a reliable (or at least a large) shop.
- Good brands that are easy to find: Bisleri, Kingfisher, Kemp's
- Good brands that are hard to find: Kinley, Aquafina, McDowell's,
- Brands to avoid: Bindu, Manju
- Don't overpay. Check the MRP printed on the bottle because the vendors will routinely mark it up (which is against the law)
- Most important: Double-check the seal on the bottle.
- Lassi is popular in Hampi. Be advised that it is made with water. Remeber you're taking on a risk since you can't be sure where that water came from.

As with most preserved or religious sites in India an entrance fee of 250 rupees is levied against foreign tourists for entry into the Kamal Mahal (Lotus Temple) and if my memory serves me correctly, also entrance into the Hajara Rama Temple, so keep hold of your ticket as proof of payment. Try not to be to irked when the Indian national only pays 10 rupees. The picture shows where you pay 2 rupees to leave your shoes for the privelidge of spending the next hour (if you last that long) walking on scorching hot stone :- see my Virupaksha Courtyard tip.