I was very happy to finally get a ride in a rickshaw. We had seen so many on the road. They are used as taxi's and can hold an unbelievable amount of people. We had three adults in the back of ours and it was cramped. Now, Indian's are traditionally smaller people but I swear we saw a rickshaw with about twelve passengers in it. They were hanging out of every open space.
The start of our journey to see the temples of Hampi had us crossing a cobblestone path. I don't think rickshaws were meant to travel on this surface because I felt for sure at one point that my spine was going to jiggle up my back and shoot out the top of my head. I just hung on and hoped I would be able to walk after the ride had finished. After we got off the cobblestone, it was a little better. It was amazing though. For ten dollars Canadian our driver drove us all over to all the temples. This is absolutely the way to go. The temples are spread out so you need to have transportation to get around and to find all these spectacular places.
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Rickshaw warrior
This was a view from inside our rickshaw. Our guide did not speak any English. Rita was with Paul and I and even though she is from Simla India, she could not understand most of what he was saying. He was very knowledgeable when it came to finding the temples and that was really all we needed. He was a nice boy. He tried really hard to help us understand.
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Rickshaws or 'Three wheelers"
As you can see, there does not seem space to fit a lot of people in one of these.
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