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.