Belur

Channekeshava Temple was built in 1116 to commemorate the Hoysala's victory over the local Cholas at Talakad. The temple took a century to build and was never quite completed.

Boys often stop us for photos. They also try really hard to get pictures of Claire as they are not used to the blonde hair, and it has to be said that the shops aren't exactly full porn mags either.

As an aside, we haven't seen any porn for sale in India and it has to be said some of the men are a little worse-for-wear and have very busy wandering hands because of it.

A few parts of the temples were half completed like this section.

The local monkeys could dance pretty good.

Some more monkey business. This was hardly an erotic temple, but if you looked hard enough you could find the smut. (Jason doesn't have porn either)

The upper levels of the temple are covered in large sculptures, with every major Hindu deity supposedly carved somewhere on the temple. Anyone who can keep up with the plethora of gods in the Hindu Pantheon deserves a prize.

The roof was held up with a number of lathe turned pillars.

Apparently, elephants were used to turn the stone pillars on laths before they were assembled in the temple.

On our return to Hassan, we were greeted by this man caressing his oxen. He kind of has that 60's porn-star "who is the man... Shaft" thing going on.