Belur & Halebid, Karnataka

Accomodation
Halebid: Tourist Cottages.
Belur: KSTDC's Hotel Mayura Velapuri, Sri Vishnu Krupa, Hotel Rajatha.

How to reach there
Halebid and Belur are only 16 km apart. The KSTDC in Bangalore runs a tour to both towns as well as to Sravanabelagola.        The Hoysala temples at Belur and Halebid (Halebeed, Halebidu), along with the one at Somnathpur east of Mysore, are the cream of what remains of one of the most artistically exuberant periods of Hindu cultural development. The temple is decorated with sculptures.The Hoysaleswara Temple at Halebid was constructed about 10 years after the temple at Belur, but despite 80 years labour was never completed.There are scenes which Represents war, hunting, agriculture, music, dance and Jain statue.
The small museum adjacent to the temple sculptures and is open from 10 am to 5 pm. There is also a smaller temple, the Kedareswara, at Halebid and, off the road to Hassan, a Jain temple.
      At Belur, the Channekeshava Temple is the only one at the three Hoysala sites still in daily use. Non-Hindus are allowed inside but not into the inner sanctum. It is very similar to the others in design but here much of the decoration has gone into the internal supporting pillars and lintels, and the larger but still very delicately carved images of deities and guardian beasts. At Halebid, the external walls are covered in friezes.