Maharaja's Palace

Living the lifestyle of a maharaja in Mysore

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April 19th 2006
We arrived in Mysore at 6pm on Monday evening after the 550km drive from Mamallapuram took longer than expected. We hoped to get here around 7 hours after setting off. In the end, it took us more like 10 hours. While the main roads between Chennai and Mysore were of a far better quality than I had expected, the delay was mainly caused by a very long wait at a railway crossing, as well as bad traff ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more