Hotel Roopa Mysore
2724/C Bangalore-Nilgiri Road Mysore, Karnataka, 570001, India
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City life, and a long bus journey in numbers
We arrived in Mysore yesterday. I don't think we'd fully appreciated quite how cut off from City life we've been since leaving Bombay. Mysore is a relaxed and beautiful city, but luxuries such as pavements (some of as wide as ten feet) came as something of a surprise after spending the last two weeks in relatively rural areas.
We got here via …
Beaches, hill stations and palaces
After exploring the hill stations, national parks and walking a lot, Pete and I headed to the coast - Varkala beach. At Varkala guest houses and restaurants are perched on the beathtaking cliffs which border the Arabian Sea. We spent our days on the beach, sitting in the cliff top restaurants and watching the superb sunset every evening.
Forest and Shade
Rob and Anjali now travel three and a half hours southeast by car to the temples of Ranakpur. Forest and Shade As we neared our destination, we finally left the desert behind and slipped into the hills and forests of Ranakpur. The forests were dry and many trees were bare, mind you, but at least along the rivers we were finally able to relax in …
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Mysore explorations
... fabulous temple, which we had nearly to ourselves. We wandered around and were able to look up close at the incredibly detailed carvings from the 13th century. Mary Ellen is a handy identifier of the Hindu deities since she teaches a unit on Indian culture.
Tomorrow we head into the hills for a night, to stay just outside a national park, with hopes of seeing some tigers...then back out to the coast to make our way towards Kochin.
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!ncredible !ndia
... We were lucky enough to be here on the day of a Muslim festival, too, so the Palace was lit up at dusk – and what a sight it makes! There are roughly 50,000 lightbulbs hanging from the building and the surrounding square, and it is rather magical (again, in a Disney way!).
Another very enjoyable experience was visiting one of the local silk factories. Once signed in with security, you are free to wander round the factory as you choose. The ...



