Pratheep was in bangalore last week for a training.. Our plan is meet in our home during the weekend.. On Friday(9th september 2011) evening, machan(Senthil) said we will receive Pratheep from Majestic(Bangalore city station). Actually the purpose was dual. One was to receive Pratheep. Another was to have some spicy chicken in KFC. So we went all the way to Majestic. But our second purpose got totally collapsed, the KFC in Majestic was closed it seems. So we end up taking a Chola puri from one of the hotels near Majestic and went to station to pickup Pratheep. Finally we met Pratheep and all three of us reached home in a cool mid-night..
As friends do when they meet, we do some chit chat sitting in our hall.. And there is small fight to watch between Air force one Movie and cricket match in TV, and ended up watching both of them here and there. And then comes a question "Whats the plan for two days?"... Me and Senthil said a couple of places like Mantri mall, Movie, Lumpini garden etc., At the moment we are about to finalize the plan, Pratheep asked a question "How far is Mysore?" and there starts our trip to Mysore again.. But this time with a broken hand:-)
We started to plan for Mysore.. Discussed all the options of train/bus starting early/late and ended up booking the ticket in Saturday(10th September) Morning 11'o clock Sadhabdhi (think I spelled correct :-)). We planned to start early, but asusual got by 9 and had a hurry bath and rushed to station and wondering there for some time to take the ticket printout.. Finally we got the ticket printed and boarded the train.. We enjoyed those meals in the train(forcefully, since we paid 300 bucks for a 2 hours journey). Finally we reached Mysore by 1'o clock in the afternoon..
First we booked a room to put our baggages(out of two bags we carried, we left one in the room) and booked a taxi for a site visit.. This time we stayed in Hotel Gupta, near KSRTC bus stand.. That's a bit costlier one, we got to stay in a better room last time in MTR hotel.. And while waiting for the taxi, we had some hot bajjis and few bananas.. For first day, we planned for Chamundeshwari hills, Srirangapatna and Brindavan garden.. But we could cover up only srirangapatnam and brindavan garden.. As it is Onam time, everywhere its crowded with more Kerala people(especially girls:-).. Good thing in that bad crowd)..
First we visited Srirangapatnam's Jamia Masjid(which was said to be constructed by Tippu).. Last time we din't went inside this, but this time we did.. Then on the way, looked at Tippu's death place.. and Tippu's palace.. By the time(3:30PM) we reached Ranganathaswamy temple, it was locked and said to open by 4PM.. So in the mean time, we went to a dungeon(prison) near the temple on the shores of river cauvery.. Both the dungeon, and Ranganathaswamy temple are new to us. We din't went to these one in our last visit.. After finishing these two places, we fought with the driver for a while to take us to the Daria Daulaght Bagh(another Tippu's summer palace), which I liked most when we went last time to Mysore. Then we headed to Brindavan garden and saw a huge crowd(piles of cars and heavy vehicles).. So we decided to start soon from there in order to not get trapped in the returning traffic. So we spent some 30 mins in brindavan garden seeing the first two songs of musical fountain, having some hot chats and some bird watching ofcourse:-) and started from there to room.. That ends our first day.. It was full tired, so we just rested in room with the TV..
Next day.. Asusual planned to start early and ended up to got up by 9 in the morning.. We rushed up checking out the room to Chamundeshwari temple.. And its a huge crowd there too.. We got some 20 rupees special ticket, waited for 30 mins or something and saw Chamundeshwari devi finally.. Though its crowded, its a good place to visit.. And we started to see the palace, but with the continuous torture of machan we went to the Zoo and wasted 30 mins seeing the same animals again.. And finally we reached palace by 1:30PM and spent some 1 hour seeing the Majestic lives of those British Ching-cha's and started to catch our train around 4PM and reached bangalore by 7PM.. That ends our Mysore trip..
Though its not a planned one, we enjoyed those two days.. It reminds me of those unplanned trips in college days to Valaiyar, Kovai kutralam etc., Overall a good weekend trip..
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