{"id":152,"date":"2007-01-06T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-01-06T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T16:04:35","slug":"chocolate-is-a-major-food-group-we-tested-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate IS a major food group! (we tested it..)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well we somehow survived our 37 hour, 2000+ km\u00a0train ride from Hampi back to the north, and arrived in Delhi for the second time.\u00a0 However, two and a half months in India really prepared us for busy cities, and Delhi seems a lot more calm, pleasant, and manageable than back in October.\u00a0 For example, arriving at the train station, we were barely\u00a0hassled at all.\u00a0 When we were last at that station, we were surrounded by touts and beggars all yelling at us and trying to head us off in their preferred direction.\u00a0 I think we have perfected the ‘icy look of death’…!<\/p>\n

Thankfully all that traveling was not in vain!\u00a0 Hampi was easily one of the coolest sights that we have seen in India.\u00a0It is unfortunate that such a nice place has a name that reminds me of a friend’s hampster, also with\u00a0the same name, but nonetheless it managed to rise above my\u00a0prejudice.\u00a0\u00a0 Not only did it have the impact of ancient Rome’s ruins, but one tenth\u00a0the people (and the price)!\u00a0 Hampi is the town which sits amidst the remains of a huge empire which ruled most of South India until it was sacked in the 16th Century.\u00a0 What remains is a 27km square protected historical site with hundreds of temples and carvings spread out among huge boulder fields and banana plantations.\u00a0 The town is peaceful and friendly, (except for the mosquitos) and the landscape is vast and powerful, with huge rocks that seem to be precariously balanced on each other (for those of you who know Wyoming, notice the striking resemblence to Veedawoo – except for the banana plantations and the river).<\/p>\n

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Although every single person told us it was “NOT possible” to cover the area on foot, we found that the roads didn’t really access everything we wanted to see, and walking was a much better pace anyway.\u00a0 And less breathing in of exhaust.\u00a0 So not only did we get some exercise, but we also got an in-depth tour of the plantation when we got lost and had to scale the palm tree and climb across the river to get back to the road.\u00a0 After that we still felt like an adventure so we climbed to the top of the tallest mountain that we could find and took photo panoramas.<\/p>\n

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The rest of our time in Hampi was spent preparing for our marathon train ride.\u00a0 After getting sick so many times we decided to try and take all our food with us.\u00a0 The only problem was that the only food that could last in the heat was from the bakery and came prepackaged.\u00a0 We have now proved that Snickers, chips and cake are all it really takes to survive in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well we somehow survived our 37 hour, 2000+ km\u00a0train ride from Hampi back to the north, and arrived in Delhi for the second time.\u00a0 However, two and a half months in India really prepared us for busy cities, and Delhi seems a lot more calm, pleasant, and manageable than back in October.\u00a0 For example, arriving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sethandclaire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}