Torin arrives in India after I waited two hours at the new flash international airport. He had a week by himself while Andrea was crazy busy finishing off reports and meeting deadlines. After a few nights in Bangalore and some sleep in’s off to Mysore he went….on the wrong train, wrong carriage, but got to Mysore ahead of the one he was meant to be on. At the Mysore station waiting for lost and bemused international travelers was Ravi, Torin’s personal driver/guide for the two days. 1,200 INR’s per day. He starting the day north of Mysore at Srirangapathnam were he visited Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace, fort and underwater jail. He very quickly discovered that you have to pay rupees for everything - parking, camera, checkpoints, guides and entry. Passing paddy fields and sugar cane plantations,
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