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Mysore Palace

Historical royal residence in the city of Mysore in Karnataka, southern India

Ambavilas Palace, generally popular as the Mysore Palace, is a recorded royal residence and an imperial living arrangement at Mysore in the southern Karnataka province of India.

Location: -Inner Mysore

Latitude: 12.303889 Longitude: 76.65444 Build Start Date: 1897 Build End Date: 1912 Architect: Henry Irwin The palace is in the center of Mysore, and faces the Chamundi Hills eastward

Mysore Palace is now one of the most famous tourist attractions in India, after the TajMahal, with more than 6 million annual visitors.

Well the Christmas weekend came and went: - Went to Mysore Palace which is about a 3 hour drive out of Bangalore. The drive there was just as interesting as the palace! We were not able to take photo's inside the palace and despite our best efforts to sneak our camera's in we were thwarted by the metal detectors...... so off to the camera storage we went. Actually, we weren’t trying to sneak photo's, just a little concerned at having to leave our cameras in a room! To enter the palace, we also had to hand over our shoes and walk barefoot thru the palace. As we had already removed our shoes, the walk back to the camera store was rather 'hot footed' The marble flooring was quite 'soft' and so many shoes trampling thru would cause a great deal of damage... Outside we were able to take some photo's some of which I've uploaded....

Found a coffee house on the side of the road on the way back so had the driver stop and finally able Summer Palace.

Summer Palace

Summer Palace to get a decent latte and we stopped further down the road again at a stall so that Bernard could buy a watermelon for just a few rupees. Lunch at an old palace building that has since been converted to a hotel - see photos and then it was back on the road to Bangalore. Classes this week are a lot heavier in content - so having to concentrate hard and learning heaps!! I'm getting rather a bad reputation in the class as I keep blowing the power board on - sparks fly and then everyone's laptops are running on battery - have managed to short out both sides of the table so far and blackened my power converter!!

Dinner last night at the Oberoi Hotel courtesy of the host BDE manager here - very fancy. Tried the local wine...... hmmmmm very nice.... very potent...