Mysore

Thank fuck I left Bangalore.... Mysore though, is a lot larger then the Lonely Planet  would lead you to believe. Other then some misleading Lonely Planet facts Mysore was fantastic.

The Maharaja Palace was amazing... I have never seen anything so excessive in my life. The detail work that has been put into every space of the palace was crazy from the painting on the walls, to the stained glass windows it was all obviously done with no expense spared. It was interesting to learn as well that the entire palace is relatively new and the Royal family still uses it to some capacity. I wish I could have taken some pictures of the interior but it was not allowed... although camera phones are fine? Oh India your ways are strange sometimes.

Although I thought the entire city was going to be palaces... well it wasn’t. Although there were many impressive Mosques and Churches around! I really enjoyed wandering around a proper normal South Indian city. I visited a veggie market which just made me miss cooking and raw food... I got to smell essential oils and bought fresh sandalwood incense as well. Mysore is the first place I have seen how a person could would actually go about living in an Indian city without having to eat out ever night and walk around in Ali Baba pants exclusively!

Fresh veg at the market  made me miss cooking and real food...

I feel sad about how ugly I made this cute girl look in this photo... sad meow

Cows and cow shit fuel patties!

Indian Christmas lights!

On my second day I went up to  Chamundi Hill which has an amazing temple, Sri Chamundeswari Temple, on the top not to mention a killer view and some really cute homes. The smart option when its balls hot outside is to walk down the 1000 or so steps from the temples so I did just that. Half way down there is a bug cow statue that I know is Shiva’s cow but I do not know much about its relevance... I caught on that it is sacred but need to do some more reading about its history! One of these days I will get to all that...

Shiva's sacred cow dude

The view on the walk down to Mysore

I stayed in probably the worst hotel I have chosen this trip... the bathroom was less then fantastic and when I laid down in my bed I realized there was a huge water stain that reminds me of something from the Ring or some movie I can’t quite put my finger on it but it was defiantly made by some kind of evil force of nature.