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.

Mysore Palace Illumination

Summer Palace

A little tuktuk madness in the rain

Summer Palace Walls

Mysore Palace Illumination

Summer Palace Wall Detail

Happy, happy, happy…..

Post office (aka pigeon coop) at Summer Palace

Geese at lunch restaurant, playing with the new macro lens

Light show preparing for coronation of local prince

Summer Palace Walls

Summer Palace Wall, Detail

Mysore Palace Illumination

Indian Coin

Summer Palace

Fish in tank

Summer Palace

Summer Palace Walls

Cultural Show at Mysore Palace

Summer Palace Arches

Summer Palace Entrance

Mysore palace gate

Summer Palace

Unimpressed Emu at hotel where we had lunch