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Mysore & the overnight train
... Fortunately the palace had an audio guide which saved Barni or a guide having to tell us what was what.
The walls of the palace are filled with paintings depicting ceremonies during the days of the maharajahs especially in the Edwardian period, it was amazing how the colours remained so bright , they looked like they could have been painted and hung only yesterday . The original palace burnt down in 1897 the present one completed in 1912 by ...
The final curtain......
... its amazing food markets and essential oils. Oh, and it has a rather stunning Palace to boot. The first rain in months! - I think we were the only excited ones about that.....
Hampi - An incredible place with sprawling sites of ancient Temples and Shrines. We also got to see the resident Elephant, Lakshmi, have a morning bath in the river, which was too cute! Met some really cool people who we then spent time with in the idyllic Gokarna. Hardly any tourists ...
On the sea
... and we've been exploring the town on foot, at a nice pace. We stopped to watch the fishermen lift their huge Chinese nets, with large rocks as counterweights, to see what hapless fish swam to their final destination. And we came upon a road being repaved, men hauling baskets of rocks on their heads to lay the substrate, onto which a tiny, tar spattered man sprinkled steaming hot tar from a large cooking oil can with holes punched along its base. His ...
Sir, try my black jasmin oil...
... deux gars qui préparent les fils d'or (du vrai or), par le même procédé, mais dans une petite cage, pour qu'on ne les vole pas...
Puis on passe aux métiers à tisser. Et c'est l'enfer sonore.
Là aussi, tout est "automatique", avec une personne derrière chaque machine pour vérifier que tout se passe bien. Dans la clameur des canettes, nous avons la chance d'observer un changement de motif (les motifs, en fil d'or sur la soie verte pâle, ...
Mudhumalai is out of nightmare now
... our local tribe (Mahesh) does not want to take a chance to get us near to that. Believe me I have seen elephants in city, but these elephants cannot be compared with any one seen here.
We took a tea break in the main village and started climbing up a mountain to towards another part of jungle as Masinagudi and near by village includes around 1000 sq kms of densed forest in Mudhumalai.. The time is around 4.30pm and the weather was cloudy so the jungle looks little ...
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