26 June 2011
The second Sunday in Bangalore, people started falling sick, so this time, fewer people went to Mysore coz it would be another 4 hours journey. Not listening to Siok Xin’s advice to take train, we took bus and spent 5-hours through bumpy roads. This time, without supernice view like Nandi Hills journey. Hehehe.
Mysore is actually ‘just’ another city outside Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka. The highlight of this city is Mysore Summer Palace. The bus was only Rs 95 (for 5-hour-journey, it’s actually cheap right?? J ) and it was non-AC bus coz we wanted to save money. How did we know the bus? We just followed the conductor who screamed, “MYSORE MYSORE MYSORE!!” Hehehe.. We chose the best seats: at the back, so we had our privacy. Hehehe.
Once we reached terminal at Mysore at 2pm (we departed from Bangalore at 9.30am), we were determined to find a train station and bought train ticket back from Mysore to Bangalore. We bought non-AC ticket for only Rs 42. Ohhh wait, I almost miss the fun part: the journey from the terminal to find the train station. The police said, “Walk 1km down the road.” Then, it turned out to be ‘a-never-ending-1-km’. The moral of the story, when they said 1km, just flag an auto and get there. We were already tired even before we saw the palace!!
From the train station, we went to the palace. It was sooo huge and majestic from the outside. Too bad we couldn’t bring our camera inside, but the security didn’t bother when we took picture using our phone cameras. Once we stepped and felt the marble floor under our feet and looked up to the ceilings, we murmured, “It’s really worth our 5-hour-journey.” I’m not good in describing physical object, so I can just say, “It’s majestic”, “It’s beautiful”. Ohhh..but the “queue” (if it can be really called a queue) was horrible. They just pushed you. The ocean of people wanted to enter the palace at the same time!! Arggghhhh!! So what we could do was only to hold each other’s bag or shirt and push other people at the same time. Inside we couldn’t really move a lot because the stream of people kept coming so we just walked through the corridor to look at the interiors. There was also one corridor filled with paintings. On second level, there was a huge hall. I dunno who started this conversation but me and my friend were calculating how much money you need if you want to get married in this huge hall of Mysore Palace.
The palace was majestic and beautiful, but even though it was an old palace, the architecture was in Western style. The paintings were also just western paintings of the royal families. But they really looked nice!
Ahhh..now the train back to Bangalore. We couldn’t find our cabin! (we thought female cabin was separated from male cabin so we split with the guys) Apparently they were all mixed cabins and we just could not find any seats. It was a 3-tier-sleeper class. Cui Shan, Siok Xin, and Cui Fen were sitting first (coz there’s no way we could find 8 seats together). Then, me and Elizabeth climbed up to the upper berth (thanks to the couple who told their kids to share seats with us). Gen and Jessica went further down. What happened with Kevin and Raymond was they ‘accidently’ went to AC class and stayed there. When the conductor inspected their tickets, they just needed to pay more according to AC-price.
The weather was sooo hot and we were so hungry L but yeah...even though Mysore was really MY SORE, it was a wonderful experience :):)
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