Mysore

We were stunned to see the crowd waiting outside the palace to get the entry tickets. It was around 430 when we could enter the palace arena. Its one of the grandest palaces in India. You must spend sometime roaming around the palace.

Visitors are not allowed to move close to the palace - barricade is erect to keep the visitors away at a distance of around 150m from the palace. However I guess due to the mad rush on that day, the Security got busy elsewhere and we got a chance to sneak close to the palace.

And we got lucky enough to go this close to the palace. We even requested a security guy to take a snap of us together infront of the palace before the other Police/CRPF guys started shouting and pushing us off outside the barricade :-(

Oh btw, dont miss the ferocious looking tigers around the garden. I had a tough time in finding them alone as they are the hotspots for the kids to get photographed with.

If you are looking for "information" about the palace, you may found this page to be quite useful: http://www.indiasite.com/karnataka/mysore/mysorepalace.html.

It was already 5PM and the palace museum closes at 530PM. We initially thought of skipping the museum and put up in some hotel around - Shrabanbelgola was too tiring. But that could have been really a big blunder.

Its magnificient! I wish Karnataka Govt lifts the ban on camera inside the palace.

Unfortunately we didnt get any acco inside the palace - so stupid of them. So Babu took us to a hotel nearby - Hotel Gallery View. We have plan to stay at Mysore tonight.

While in the queue for the palace ticket, we learnt that the palace is illuminated on every Sunday from 7PM to 8PM - and can you believe we were in Mysore on a Sunday!!!

Babu was interested in taking us to Brindavan Garden - but we had to choose between the Garden and the Palace - the choice was pretty obvious. We decided to go for the palace in the evening and then do some shopping.

If you are "planning" to visit Mysore - please make a plan to visit it on a Sunday. It looks gorgeous. There was almost a Mela around with almost everyone in Mysore in the arena.



The band (Police band?) added a new dimension to the evening.

We went to a nearby emporium to try out my Credit Card - it worked and I got poorer by a couple of bucks and we got happy to get Mysore Silks and Sandalwoods.

In the afternoon we had bargained a Rose wood Jewellery box from 350/= to 160/= infront of the Palace. However later we found out its even cheaper in Kodai. It was time to hit the bed now - we were too tired.