Belur Temple

After Halebid, we headed to Belur temple. This temple is dedicated to Vishnu and is still a functioning temple, unlike Halebid which is dedicated to Shiva and is pretty much a museum. Both temples are maintained and protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.

As a functioning temple, services still go on at Belur. We were there at 3 p.m. when the priest opened the door to the inner sanctum and did a little puja.

We ran into a Spanish backpacker, Jeroni, from Barcelona at Belur Temple and we gave him a ride back to Hassan after the visit. He is backpacking across South India. He started off in Bombay, went to Goa, down the coast to Gokarn, Hassan, Belur and Halebid, is going to Kochi, Kanyakumari, then to Madurai and a few other places and back to Spain. I want to do that next time!!

Top pic: Me and Jeroni at the side entrance of Belur Temple, middle pic: Doodle and Mish at the main entrance (gopuram) of Belur Temple, bottom pic: lunch on the way to Hassan.