Mysore Palace

It was the 21st of February; we planned to go to the Mysore Palace for the weekend. We entered the palace at about 12.00pm. We were very much disappointed on knowing that camera was not allowed inside the palace. The palace was built in 1912 in the Indian serene style to replace the old palace which was burnt down by fire. Some of the noteworthy places inside the palace are the Ambavilasa or Diwan-e-Khas, the Kalayana Manatapa, the Public Darbar Hall and the Gusti Hall. The Public Darbar Hall looked closely similar to the Durbar in the movie 'Jodha Akbar'. It is said that the palace has 12 temples within it. But we were able to spot out only 2 of them. One of the things which attracted us in the palace was the AC lift. It looked so familiar since those kinds of elevators are common in Hollywood movies. We thought we could spend the whole afternoon inside the palace. But we just took a look of the palace and left in less than 3 hours.
Then we had our lunch and went to the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens or the Mysore zoo. We were happy that cameras were allowed inside the zoo. The zoo was established under Royal Patronage in 1892, making it one of the oldest zoos in the world, and since then millions of people have enjoyed its wonderful animals and spectacular grounds. Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens or Mysore zoo is one of the biggest of its kind in the country. We had to walk around 2.75 kms inside the zoo to completely go around the zoo. The main attraction of the zoo was the white tigers and the gorillas. We took pics of us giving all possible poses like animals. I stood near a monkey statue and gave a pose like it. As we walked a lot in that sunny afternoon, we were thirsting and we didn't have water can. We couldn't find any water pipes nearby. We were very badly in need of water to kill our thirst and that is when we came across a sugarcane juice shop. We had cane juice and took a bit rest there and we started again. We came to the birds section. The birds were really attracting. The swans were very beautiful. Then we found some hoardings which stood as an evidence for the sponsorship by the "Infosys employees". We stood near them and took pics as if we were those employees. This zoo will be liked by children a lot. We had a good trip and then started back to our campus.

Mysore Zoo - Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Garden

Check out the year

Tiger

Take your right

Monkey

Do not feed

Chimpanzee

Rhino

Deers

Elephants

A painting

Cheetah

King of the Jungle

I liked this a lot

Goose

Duck

Mysore Zoo Dustbin

Giraffe

Thank You

Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens

JaganMohan Palace

I'm staying in Infosys at Mysore for a project. I, along with my friends, planned to go around the city on 14-02-2010. All of us are new to Mysore. We started by around 11am. We got into a bus and reached CBS (Central Bus Stand). We asked some people for a shop with electronic goods. We were said that Devaraj Street contains all kinds of shops. We got directions from many passersby and finally reached Devaraj Street. Unexpectedly we didn't find any shop with electronic items. We searched lot of shops for an mp3 player but couldn't find one. Then we decided to go to Mysore palace. The palace was quite visible from the bus stand. So we walked from there and reached the palace and found that we were in the back gate of the palace. We were asked to go through the front gate. We decided to take a ride to the front gate in a horse-driven cart. When we reached the front gate we found a big crowd there. They were waiting in a queue to enter the palace. We decided to go to the Mysore palace the next week end. We went for shopping in the nearby shops. Then we decided to go to the JaganMohan palace.

So we looked for a horse cart to go to the palace. We found one. And while going to the palace the driver of that cart said that JeganMohan palace was not worth to see. We reached the front gate and entered the palace paying Rs.20 each as the entry fee. Camera was not allowed inside the palace. The palace was full of paintings and ancients artifacts used by the kings of Mysore. There was an art museum in the palace. I bought a printout of an artwork as a remembrance of that place. We were inside the palace for around one hour. It would be a good place for art lovers. We understood that the palace was not a place to visit for youngsters like us.