Today we took a quick tour around Bangaluru and then drove around 4 hours to Mysore (aka Mysuru).  We stopped to enjoy a riverside lunch at a hotel/zoo/resort and stopped at Tipu Sultan’s Mysore summer palace, Daria Dalaut Bagh.  In the evening we took a dizzying tuktuk ride to enjoy a cultural show and the crowds at the illuminated Mysore Palace.

Indian Coin

Summer Palace Walls

A little tuktuk madness in the rain

Mysore Palace Illumination

Mysore palace gate

Happy, happy, happy…..

Cultural Show at Mysore Palace

Summer Palace Entrance

Summer Palace Walls

Summer Palace

Summer Palace Wall Detail

Mysore Palace Illumination

Summer Palace

Summer Palace

Mysore Palace Illumination

Fish in tank

Summer Palace Wall, Detail

Summer Palace Arches

Light show preparing for coronation of local prince

Summer Palace

Summer Palace Walls

Geese at lunch restaurant, playing with the new macro lens

Unimpressed Emu at hotel where we had lunch

Post office (aka pigeon coop) at Summer Palace