Shop owner named Bob (he shortens his indian name so the foreigners can pronounce it) suggested we visit 3 temple towns, one of them - Sravanabelagola, which has supposedly world's tallest monolithic statue. Statue is of the Jain deity Gomateshvara and measures at 17.5m. Just the day before we read about some celebration regarding this statue in newspaper (yes, we read newspapers here), so we packed and went.

~1000 years old

It was a steep climb of more that 600 steps to the top of the hill, where Gomateshvara is located and it was raining a bit, but I guess it is better than hot sun (at the foothill people sell socks, because you have to climb the steps barefoot (socks allowed) and steps can get extremely hot).

It's bigger that it looks
Still a little bit to the top
Almost
There
Janitor forced me to take this image from this corner

P.S.

I got food poisoning and stayed mostly in my room for whole 3 days, so I only visited statue once, but scenery was definately worth of return. There was another similar hill nearby (this one with temple on top), which I also didn't visit because of stomach problems, but at least Artur managed to see everything and several times.