Bangalore/Mysore

Here are pictures from this weekends trip to Bangalore and Mysore!

We left Thursday evening. The first leg of our journey was the walk from our dorm to the main gate of campus to catch a rickshaw. It took about 40 minutes!

We took the night bus from Hyderabad to Bangalore. It was a very bumpy 12 hr ride. Luckily there were beds instead of seats!

We spent the first day in Bangalore and then grabbed a bus to Mysore for Saturday. This photo is from a market near our hotel. It's popular to get a strand of jasmine in your hair. It smells amazing.

Some dyes and oils in the market. 

Of course there was a cow enjoying the market too!

We went to a house where the women roll incense that is exported to Europe. They start with slivers of bamboo, roll it in a honey, charcoal, and gunpowder mixture (the black stuff on the right) and then roll it in the powder.

Next we went to a place where they roll beedies.  A beedi is sandlewood slivers and ginger wrapped in a sandlewood leaf. They say they're healthy. 

This was the palace in Mysore. We walked around the whole thing trying to find the entrance. It took us about an hour and by the time we found it we had to head  back to the hotel. Very disappointing.

Our last day in Bangalore. Exhaustion takes over.