Hampi and the Chariot Festival

A Unesco World Heritage Site, the area around Hampi is dotted with 500-year old ruins of palaces and temples among a spectacular landscape of granite boulders, canals, banana plantations and rice patties.

The main focus of this video is not the inanimate, however, it is the riotous yearly chariot festival. Watch as two temple chariots carrying religious idols are being pulled along Bazaar Street, elephants bless the villagers with a touch of their trunk, people break out in song and dance, all while the frenzied crowd throws one of my favorite offerings at the moving chariots - bananas.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• hampi
• chariot festival
• Karnataka

[dieterburg]

I love the footage of all the different people. Great job!