Mysore, India Travel Pictures
Mysore is a convenient day trip from Bangalore and offers a fair amount of interesting sights. It is lower and therefore warmer than Bangalore and although Mysore isn't very large, I did use an auto rickshaw between sights, especially to Chamundi Hill, which is several kilometers out of town. The Maharaja's Palace is a very popular destination for locals, and I happened to visit on a Sunday, the busiest day of the week. Lines were long, and the constantly shuffling queue was herded through the palace by a string of police whistling the crowd along. The impressive was seamlessly displayed with the gaudy. Chamundi Hill's hilltop temple was extremely busy as well, so I didn't venture inside, choosing to walk down the "thousand steps" to the base of the hill instead. The Devraja Fruit Market was another interesting place to wander about, and some of the stall sellers, many of them children, gladly posed for my camera. [All images taken in May 2006 with an Olympus C-750]
At Bangalore's main bus station
Waiting for take off
Gate on Bangalore outskirts
Roadside truck
Gaudy movie signboard on the way to Mysore
"No Plastic" on the way up to Chamundi Temple
This is the auto-rickshaw guy who drove me up to Chamundi hill. A shrewd businessman, he offered me "girls" and then "stuff to smoke"...
On the road up to Chamundi Hill
This guy greets everyone on Chamundi Hill
If you're short on film, here is the place to go . .
The temple on Chamundi hill. Loads of people waiting to get in
The entrance to the temple
Those are mighty colorful cones
More people waiting to get into the temple
Kids posing
A little drawing on a wall
Yup, there are a couple of monkeys on the hill
Still on Chamundi hill, looking at the line
Toy seller on the hill
General store on the hill
"Godly Museum" on the hill. I did venture in
The Godly museum
Alright, time to walk down back to Mysore
The way down
The huge Nandi bull shrine on the way down
The steps down
Doorway along the way down
The bottom of the steps. The sun was burning down strongly as it was mid-day
Auto-rickshaw meter
Inside the gates of the Maharaja's Palace
Lady wearing her Sunday sari inside the Maharaja's Palace
One of the arches at Maharaja's Palace
It was just after noon, these guys must have been feeling slightly drowsly (Maharaja's Palace)
Maharaja's Palace (visitor's milling about on the first floor, lots of guards)
Maharaja's Palace gateway
Another Maharaja's Palace gateway
Look at the Maharaja's Palace gate, that's pretty ornate
Maharaja's Palace gate
Maharaja's Palace in the evening, getting deserted
Maharaja's Palace gateway at dusk
Camels outside Maharaja's Palace
Waiting for a motor rickshaw
Waiting for the bus
The bus
The colors of Devaraja fruit market
Flower buds at Devaraja fruit market
Color at Devaraja fruit market
These stone pillars prevent vehicles entering Devaraja fruit market
Devaraja fruit market sells vegetables too
Kids at Devaraja fruit market
The holy cows gobbling the waste at Devaraja fruit market
Around Mysore
Jubilee watch tower
Rangacharlu Memorial Hall
Jubilee watch tower (Wow, that tree's see a bit of wind)
1920 statue of Maharaja Chamarajendar Wodeyar
Maharaja Chamarajendar Wodeyar
