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 gate

Summer Palace Wall, Detail

Cultural Show at Mysore Palace

Summer Palace

Happy, happy, happy…..

Geese at lunch restaurant, playing with the new macro lens

Mysore Palace Illumination

Summer Palace Walls

Post office (aka pigeon coop) at Summer Palace

Summer Palace

Mysore Palace Illumination

Indian Coin

Summer Palace Walls

Summer Palace

Summer Palace Entrance

Summer Palace Wall Detail

Light show preparing for coronation of local prince

Summer Palace

A little tuktuk madness in the rain

Summer Palace Arches

Mysore Palace Illumination

Unimpressed Emu at hotel where we had lunch

Summer Palace Walls

Fish in tank