Chapter 3 Underneath The Mango Tree Part 6 Underneath the Mango Tree      An afternoon or two after climbing to the top of the Ram Ram mountain, I met a group of westerners on the main street. They were sitting in the sun at some white plastic tables drinking soda and lime. (It’s the default [...]

Chapter 3 Underneath the Mango Tree Part 5 Ram Ram      The dirt road wound between mounds of boulders and lost trees, back along the edge of the river, toward the mountain with the while line zigzagging up the front.      Along the edge of the road were incongruously flooded paddy fields lined with palm [...]

Chapter 3 Underneath the Mango Tree Part 4 The Coracle      The sun was out and warm on this winter day, the sky spanned in a pale blue, lengths of white clouds sat softly in the sky and I was walking along a dirt road that had been walked along for centuries. Up ahead, in [...]

Chapter 3 Underneath the Mango Tree Part 3 Once the Center      I knew -well- nothing about Hampii. There was a map in the guidebook, and not really much else, so I went for a walk to see what I could see. The main street is so short it ended before it even started, and [...]

Chapter 3 Underneath the Mango Tree Part 2 Entrance      From Poona, it took a train, two busses and a taxi to get to Hampii. It was supposed to be one train and three busses, but just a few miles from Hampii, a group of men, in an obvious labor dispute, kindly kept me from [...]