Trip to Mysore - Chamundi hills

Next morning plans were to visit Chamundi Hills early morning as we had to leave for Mumbai in the afternoon...... Started at 6am, picked one of my cousin and headed to Chamundi Hills to capture the first rays of sun shine... 

Arial view of Mysore City

THE Sun rise

Statue of Nandi(Bull) the vahana(Vehicle) of Lord Shiva....

Temple of Goddess Chamundeshwari(also known as Mahishasura Mardini).... 

I wonder why we didn't click the pics of Mahishasura the demon, this is the postcard of statue of Mahishasura, which i brought from Mysore...

Posing with Mahishasura...

Other posts of this trip:

Mysore Zoo

Palaces of Mysore

Trip to Mysore- Palaces of Mysore

The day we visited Zoo, the same evening we had my aunty's B'day party... Maanvi was so tired that we left her sleeping with my mom... On the way we passed through the Maharaja Palace and found the Palace illuminated... When checked with the security personal, we were told that it was a public holiday in commemoration of Id-Milad, so was the Palace light...We just clicked couple of pics as we were already late for the party....

And so were we regretted for not getting Maanvi with us....

While this post is on Palaces of Mysore, i have included Lalitha Mahal Palace as well which we visited, on our way back from Chamundi hills (in detail in my next post)...

This Palace is converted into heritage hotel and run as an elite hotel of the Ashok Group of the Indian Tourism Development Corporation under Government of India. 

The other palace which we never missed to visit during our visits to Mysore in our childhood days was Jaganmohan Palace.. This Palace is now converted into Art Gallery and houses more than 2000 paintings. Other exhibits here include weapons of war, musical instruments, sculptures, brass ware  antiques, coins and currencies... This time we couldn't visit this palace.

Other posts from this trip

Mysore Zoo

Chamundi Hills

Trip to Mysore - Zoo

I had written about Mysore few months back in my post on Mysore Dasara. I had my brother-in-law's wedding in January in Mysore and we planned to visit few of the places in Mysore.... We had a very busy schedule this time.

We reached Mysore on 21st Jan and it was my B'day. I was given a surprise b'day bash by my hubby, cousin and my brother-in-law...

Next three days we were busy with the wedding and finally we were able to plan out something on 25th...

The first place i wanted to visit was Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, well know in layman's language as Mysore Zoo. All for Maanvi as she had covered wild and domestic animals in her academics and i was sure she would be happy to see all those animals in reality.... And so was i not disappointed by her...

We had heard that there are battery operated vehicles in the zoo campus which carry us and that would save our time... We reached there by 1:30 and got to know that the service was only after 2:30. We felt it would be better to carry on by foot instead of waiting for an hour.... The first thing which caught our sight was Animal Adoption Scheme,

Here we start our journey with birds

 

    

Few caution boards put up here and there

And this Fossil tree trunk which is supposed to be over 150 Million Years old

Maanvi was very much eager to find animals and through out our way she was asking where she could find elephants....Next were the animals,

 

These direction maps helped to convince ourselves that we had covered a portion of our journey...

There is a Zoo Merchandise shop inside, where we shopped for Maanvi 

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