Elephant Stables
A grand row of eleven domed chambers that once housed the royal war elephants.
Open
8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Entry
₹40 for Indians · ₹600 for foreign visitors
Best time to go
Morning
Time to spend here
About 30 minutes
Crowds
Can get busy
Same ASI ticket as the Lotus Mahal and Vittala Temple. The adjoining Guards' Quarters houses a small archaeological museum.
On the ASI ticket
This place is one of ten that share one ASI ticket. Bought for a date, the same ticket also gets you into these that day:
₹35 online for Indian visitors · ₹550 for foreign visitors
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About this place
The Elephant Stables are among the best-preserved secular buildings in Hampi: a long, symmetrical range of eleven large chambers, each crowned with a dome, arranged around a central pavilion. The alternating dome shapes and the Indo-Islamic styling reflect the cosmopolitan tastes of the Vijayanagara court. Each chamber could hold one or two elephants, with openings above once used to chain and feed them.
Good to know
- Keep your Zenana Enclosure ticket: it normally covers this heritage zone and may cover other ASI sites on the same day; confirm current validity at the counter.
- The small archaeological galleries in the nearby Guards' Quarters are easy to miss and are worth checking while they are open.
- Do not climb on the stable platforms or enter any area closed by ASI barriers.
Where it is
Close by
Photo credits
- Elephant Stables: Closeup of Elephant Stables, Hampi · iMahesh · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Elephant Stables: Elephant-Stables · Zeptonews · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Elephant Stables: Elephant stables, Hampi, Karnataka, India · Kevin.sallee (Kevin Sallée) . · CC BY 2.5
