നിറഭേദങ്ങള്‍: Transition of colours

Thursday, December 21, 2006


A trip to Mysore

Mysore has been the major source of attraction during navarathri ,,,sunday
morning we started 8 people n a bike with me and ganesh together. 6.45 i
reached office and picked gordhan by 7.15. Had fuel from BTM petrol pump
...reached Brigade road by 7.45-8. Journey started from there by 8.15 or so
and Reached Ramnagaram By 9.30.Had breakfast there. By 9.45 Journey
continued had two stops after that second one was at mandya. from there we
went to srinrangapattanam 18KMs from mysore. Sync there. Ilanner ...and
stuff ...went to the kotta of tipu and Hyder ali ..the Summar
Palace...2.5Kms ahead the Kaverisangam also ....Left the Gumbaz unvisited
and started the journey to mysore...
Reached mysore by 1-15 or so ,,,finished food by 3.15pm..went to see mysore
palace. THings were bad huge rush ..queues and all ...dropped the plan to go
inside ...had a watch of Palace from outside..few fotographs ....door got
opened somehow ,,,,we got in ...oru elephant without taking bath for many
yeards was painted with odd colours ..was roaming around ..thadiyan took
many snaps of the same

Plan was to go to Vrindavan and chamundi hills ...and came back and see the
lighting n palace. But vrindavan was dropped due to the time constraints.
Went to chamundi hills..13kms from mysore ,,nice climbing experiance
....only once during overtaking a bus some risk was there since we jerked n
a pit ....rest was cool ,,,careful driving ...too good place .cows were
eating the floral decoration of the festivals there.....some photo session
..people were posing for fotos to put in orku or shadi.com...after the
session went to the temple ...good one with architecture and all ....after
that camera battery replaced ...me and ganesh had good parippuvada ...where
the funky guys dropped that...By 6.30 return from the Hills ...one scene was
too good when climbing down the full mysore was n light ...one place the
palace alone was n green light a nice evening is over........Back to the
depth of mysore ....After roaming arond for half an hr found a place to
park near some town hall .....A million people over there ....we had to wait
to cross the road even ...luckly we found the other people from our gang
also ....fotos fotos and fotos ,,,for a while ...amazing lighting
arrangements ..people even wondered abt the fault isolation scheme also
there....By 8.45 we started our return journey ...people were tired ....By
9.30 we had food finished by by 10.30 again resume of the journey. arnd 135
KM to travel and too n the night ,,,visibility was less ...First stop was n
mandya ,,,5mnts rest there 50kms from mysore arnd ...Then planned for a
stop at ram nagaram but couldnt find a place with people and all ...time was
arnd 12 we stopped some place arnd 30kms from bangalore ...Ganesh on ride
....till the entrance of the Gardencity bangalore. From there through the
2.5KM fly over back to bangalore ....townhall ..kr market ...jayanagar
....staraight away to JP nagar ...dropped ganesh n BTM ...back to my home
....Time is 1.39am .....feverish ....cold ..throat has gone bad ...thats it
...EO Journey....[SYNC was not happend in the return journey with the four
bikes .....which was successful during trips to yelagiri hills ....But No
problem occured ...one more milestone in travelling !


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