Badami Caves

On our trip to Hampi, we stayed a second day so we could take a side trip to Badami cave temples.  It is a 3 hour drive over very bad roads.  We thought the roads were bad in Bangalore but these were incredibly potholed and rough.  Our driver should not have driven any faster than 50 km an hour but he at some points was going close to 100 km which was a little bumpy.  We did not say anything though as we both have developed a huge dislike for being in the car so much as it takes forever to get anywhere here….and it still took us 3 hours.
The caves are really neat.  It took us about 45 minutes to go very slowly through the caves as we were not in any rush to get back into the car. 

Due to the fact that we had gone so far, our driver also took us to a market, to some temples in Aihole and some more ruins in Pattadakal that were in close proximity to Badami.  Everything was ok to see, but we were kinda templed out by this point so it felt like too long a drive for what we saw.

These little kids were pretty rambunchus and talkative with us, so I asked to take their picture but then they stood so proper.  It was really cute.

The further you get outside of Bangalore, the poorer it becomes.  Here is a couple of women doing there laundry in a ditch.  It makes you feel a bit spoiled as last week I had a conversation with one of my friends about how I sympathized with her for not having a clothes dryer.

We sat and got a drink and there was this cat with her kittens hanging around, so i bought it a coconut so that it could drink the milk out of it.  Miss my kitties!