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Published: August 12th 2008
Mysore Palace
Every Sunday, the palace is lit for an hour. It was crowded and everyone just staring at it - definitely a fairground feeling!Well, the monsoon finally caught up with us and the last days have been cloudy skies and rain...Mysore looks gorgeous though - lots of huge graceful buildings and the palace is amazing. Went around it this morning and it's the most ornate palace I have ever seen - but no photos allowed....so v few images on this blog - difficult to take photos in the monsoon....
We did go up Chamundi Hill - 9km out of the city - to the Sri Chamundeswari Temple, and saw Nandi, the huge black bull which was carved in 1659. Also got to the Devaraja Market - fruit, flowers, incense....loved that!
And we did manage to get to the Lalitha Mahal Palace, which is now a hotel. Real faded grandeur - slightly run down, which has echoes of a much more regal past....
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Anish
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still stuck in the monsoon?
hi . saw ur humorous photo on ms.bollywood. How did u manage to take the lalitha mahal corridor photo ? cameras were banned of late . Anyway magnificient photos. still in mysore. take some time off to interior karnataka and see the shrvana belagola. Architecture is great, worth dying for. if u have already visited then goto ooty,bandipur and coonoor. Indian switzerland . luv. Anish