Yesterday, Saturday August 15th, was Independence Day in India. Look, look, i got my own flag :-). To celebrate, Jesse and I went to Mysore for the weekend. Mysore is a beautiful town about 130km southwest of Bangalore. It is famous for its Maharaja's Palace (or Indian Versaille as Jesse calls it), its colourful Devaraja Market, its carved sandalwood and beautiful silk sarees. It's also soooo much quieter and peaceful than Bangalore. And so green!
We took the 7am train (who actually left 1t 8:30am) and got there in time for lunch. We stayed at a very pleasant hotel called "green hotel". It's an old palace that used to be a summer retreat for the Wodeyar princesses (hmmm, maybe i am a BP after all). Now, it's a hotel with beautiful gardens, a delicious restaurant, colourfully painted rooms with birds and flowers...and it donates all its profit to charity. Not bad, huh? (besides, the price for a double room is very reasonable).
We spent the afternoon at the Palace, climbed down the stairs of Chamundi hill (or at least the part between the temple and Nandi's statue), walked around the bazaar (i love to listen and watch when Jesse bargains :-)) and finally went back to the Palace to see it all illuminated at night.
Oh, i also bought a silk saree...dark purple and green...very pretty! Now i just need a special occasion to wear it...anybody getting married soon? ;-)
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