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July 10, 2005
Bangalore Weekend Getaway – Mysore
Last weekend two of my cousins came to visit me, at the last moment we decided to get out of Bangalore. We didn’t want to drive too far and we did want to do something fun. Since we couldn’t come up with any fun plan, we decided to go to Mysore and on the way back we thought we will stay in some resort and have some fun.
Mysore is 130 Km from Bangalore, we left Bangalore really early to beat the traffic (7.00am). It took us around 3 hours to reach Mysore.
In Mysore we visited the St. Philomena’s Church. This Cathedral church was built in the 1950’s and this is one of the largest churches in India.
We also visited the Mysore Palace. This palace was very impressive. You can hire a guide for the palace and without the guide I don’t think I would have gotten impressed. If you are visiting the Mysore Palace make sure you get a guide for the palace.
After the Mysore Palace we headed straight to the resort which was located 12 km from Mysore. We checked into the resort and we headed straight to the swimming pool. We spend almost 2.30 hours in the swimming pool playing game. Well we invented our own game which is a combination of water polo and American football. It was lot of fun. But we all got really tired after that. The rest of the evening we played some more games and hit the bed early.
The next day we got up really late and had our breakfast and checkout of the resort and headed back to Bangalore. On the way to Bangalore we saw a go-kart place and decided to do some racing. It was fun, but not that much fun for me. That might be because I am not a good race driver I guess.
It was a weekend filled with lots of activity and fun. More picture
Posted by Sam at July 10, 2005 07:37 AM
Comments
That church looks gorgeous, never seen photos of it, seen lots of Mysore palace though, my next visit destination is definetly going to be Karnataka. Nice pics :)
Posted by: visithra at July 11, 2005 12:59 AM
heped me a lot to get picturea of mysore thank u
Posted by: ashkar at June 18, 2007 03:52 AM