Mysore, Nanjangud and Cauvery Dam

1. The Mysore Palace

Mysore was a kingdom of southern India founded by 2 brothers in AD1400. They started the Wodeyar Dynasty from 1400 until 1947 (except for a short duration governed by Tipu Sultan) when it merge with the Union of India.

There are several entrances to the palace, but this appears to be the main one.

Ticket counter.
After showing entrance ticket, we got around here to have some pictures taken.

Part of the palace ground wall.
Approaching the main palace entrance. After this point, no photography allowed.

Inside the palace, elaborate wall, door and ceiling wooden sculptures everywhere. Floor are mainly proceline tiles, some worn and chipped. Only 1 room is opened to public, the rest of the maybe hundreds of rooms securely locked. There is also a large collection of painted pictures of the Wodeyar family on displayed.

Robert, Rama and Frank.
Frank and Robert standing at open space at the front of the palace gallery.

2. Nanjangud Temple

The town of Nanjangud is about 30 mins drive from Mysore. It has this Hindu temple where devotees and tourists went to give prayer or to receive blessings from the priest. It has several dieties, including statues of Hindu gods and goddesses.

The temple at Nanjangud. No photography allowed inside the temple. There are several dieties inside the temple and Hindu priest blessing devotees and tourist like us. Pillars were constructed from rocks, in fact the whole building was constructed from rocks.

Gurusamy, Shanker, Robert and Rama.
The temple complex.

3. Cauvery Dam and Park

The Cauvery dam was constructed across the Cauvery river that flows from the state of Karnataka to Tamil Nadu, supplying water to both states. At the site of the dam, there is this beautiful garden with water features, a crowd puller causing people congestion at the site as well as motor vehicle jamming up the 2-way country road leading to the dam.

A big crowd 'queuing' to buy tickets to enter the Cauvery Dam Park. When we left 2 hours later, the same size crowd was still there.

Taking a picture with tallest man in India? Price 10 rupees.

Robert, Shanker, Gurusamy, frank and Rama at the park.
A section of the crowd.
Robert standing by the cascading water.

We had a snack of either ground-nuts or muruku.
It was evening. At the far end is the musical fountain. At about this time, people were moving towards the musical fountain, non-stop movement of people moving from the right side of the lake (the left side is the wall of the dam), thousands of them, wanting to watch its display on this Sunday evening.
We had our dinner at this restaurant mid-way back to Bangalore. There were several of these huts and also tables in the open ground, we occupied one of these huts. It was the usual Indian fare of Nan, tanduri chicken, etc...almost in the dark. It was a long day for us. Gurusamy dozing off in the car.