Hotel Metropole Mysore

... skin still shows much beauty and poise, and Indians have long reconciled the fact that she is a foreigner. She’s been here long enough, 41 years, since marrying Rajiv Gandhi⎯heir to the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty⎯after meeting him in England in 1965. Marrying into India’s Kennedy family was not without enormous trial, including the assassination not only of her mother-in-law and Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, in 1984 but also her husband, also ...

... a shopping expedition for some local goodies.<br><br>The Devaraj market is a shoppers paradise which could put any famous shopping districts in larger metro cities to shame. Our first stop was at the Gayathri Coffee Works where we bought a decent quantity of their best coffee. To the multitude of saree shops next for typical Mysore sarees. Last but not ...

... tradition is to slaughter an animal as a sacrifice, and then cook it for family and friends. The head goes to the poor, some other part for neighbours and the family has the body. So, as we walked along the narrow alleys we were surrounded on either side by the poor sat on the ground cooking the heads of newly slain animals on open coals. I can't say it was a thrilling sight, but I respect it being part of the culture. We were greeted with kindness, and ...

I slept really great last night, which is surprising, considering it was on a train, but oh well, sleep is sleep if you're actually sleeping, which I was. This morning, around 10 am, and on time, yes! we arrived in Mysore. Great little place, clean, with trees, and an amazing looking palace (we'll ...

... by the way, so could be mistaken for a ball of **** too! I was pretty tired by this point (the sites are pretty spread out, and i walked between them all, well over 7km by now), however i checked out colonels tomb, the dungeons, the spot where Tipu was found and the nearby gardens, before realising the pain i was experiencing in my hands, lips, toes was due to the fact i had been rather badly sun-burnt. What ridiculous places to get sunburn eh!

We've been here in Mysore, India for 3 weeks. During an intense UNO tournament last night we talked about our impressions of India, how quickly the time just goes, and where does it go? What do we do? India is a big place. It's smaller in area than China or the US, but it has the feeling or gives the appearance of being so much larger. From the Himalayas in the north to the Arabian sea in the south; in-between lie jungles teeming with big game and all sorts ...

... with different colored lights under them. It wasn't worth leaving the hotel so we just had dinner and called it a night. I guess that this was the proof to me that there was not much to do in Mysore, and we hadn't missed out on anything. I never got around to visiting the sandalwood or silk factories that I had heard so much about either, but if it was anything like these two sites, I didn't miss much.