1 day @ de LAND OF ART - Mysore

Date : 20th November 2010.

Morning @ 3 30 were my frenz Karthi and Vinod waiting @ my gate.. I rushed to the car. Then went to pick up my frenz Sugan and Vidhu and headed towards Murugeshpalya where CKB, Raj and Ezhil joined and the gang was complete to start our trip.

We had good songs to hear from Ezhil’s memory card and spent our travel playing cards brought by CKB. 1st I restrained myself from playing bcoz I didn’t know how to play the game ace. But thanks to Ezhil who with his hat trick defeat encouraged me to join the game… Thanks Ezhil.

Slowly daylight started peeping in and the mist covered nature stopped us to snap them. Here is a photo where we also joined nature covered with mist.

It was 6 am when our stomach started grumbling @ us though had some biscuits nothing helped.. We were crazy to look out for some restaurants to be open but it was just madness to expect that so early. It was 6 30 when we reached St Philomena church. Took some snaps there and moved towards Chamundi hills to meet Goddess Mahishasuramardhini…

The temple opened @ 7 30 and we were 10 minutes b4 it opened. Had to wait in a small queue to meet that dazzling goddess… Wow was a divine morning. Had a great feeling when we came out. Unbearable hunger pushed us into a small mess nearby where we had our breakfast.

Then we travelled back to Srirangapatinam. On the way found the place where Tipu Sultan fell dead.

We met Lord Ranganathaswamy there and then started back to Mysore palace. And I found beautiful paintings @ the small shops outside the temple but my frenz pulled me off to start to the next place. But still I managed to buy a Vinayagar statue which the seller promised was Sandal wood and I knew it wasn’t …

@ Palace: OMG I wonder why I was not born during the olden age. What a life the palace people would have lived. Especially when I stood down the big dome where marriage rituals of the kings family were performed I lost myself. The dome was a glass designer imported from UK. And down around the palace were tiny tiles which were about 1 x 1 inch each and I still wonder how they placed it so perfectly and how many days how many people would have worked for it.. It was mind boggling. We also saw kings residential palace where his clothes, the toys with which he played with, few swords and many others were preserved. By the time we came around the palace we were damn hungry and as soon as we reached the exit of the palace we rushed to a hotel for our lunch.

Sorry I forgot the name of the hotel that killed two hours of our trip time by such a slow and very bad service.

And then we reached the zoo where we had to walk about 2.9Kms to come around. Though initially we were hesitating about the distance but when we saw the variety and beauty of different fauna found there we didn’t know how we walked around the distance. Some of them that I remember are zebra, giraffe, a species of kangaroo, lion, white tiger, white peacock, chimpanzee (it was awesome. Jus resembled human beings), squirrel monkey (which looks like a monkey and squirrel), white deer, bear, cheetah, ostrich, many beautiful birds and may others. And my frenz had a great time naming each animal found there with my name.

Yeah we reached finally our last place of visit KRS dam. Though the dam was closed we had a great evening @ Brindavan with the water fountains dazzling in light, musical fountain and boating stole our hearts. We sat there for a small chat and our trip came to an end.

Our journey back home started. And again we enjoyed it playing cards. It was around 12 midnight when I stepped in to my room.

My dreams that night took me back to the palace that I still feel overwhelmed about.

A great trip but my frenz made me miss the joy of shopping. Its ok I would go there again at least for the sake of shopping some good art.