A Quick Day Out To Mysore

Small Intro of Destination:

Most of Bangalore residents know Mysore as it is one of the nearest and best tourism place to hang around with any one you like (Family, Friends, Lovers, Enemies and Yourself).

Mysore (In and around) is one lovely place where you get all the perfect things you need for a good day out. Palace, Mountains ,Temples (All religions) , Parks, River , Lakes, Amusement Parks, Hotels, Bird Sanctuary, Zoo etc etc etc.  

Some Links:

1.  Wiki
2.  State Government 

Pre-requisite is only your heart which is willing to enjoy the Day Out fully

Background of trip:

                                 We wanted to visit one of our dearest friend who is studying in Mysore University and to spend time with him. 

Finally Me and one more friend were the final travellers along with Maruthi Swift. 

Agenda: 

• Leave early
• On the Way breakfast
• Pick the Friend 
• Visit some nearby places 
• Have a great meal  
• Return back to Bengaluru City. 

On An Actual Day: 

                                 

Time Table: 

Started : 6 am

Reached Mysore: 8.30 am

Left Mysore: 4 pm

Reached Bengaluru: 7 pm

Total KM: Approx 320

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As planned, I was picked on time and we started the journey pretty peacefully with some devotional songs and trying to shoot some small videos (which was a flop show), As traffic was too low our buddy was pretty fast to take the advantage and zoomed the car. Meanwhile we were digging memories and talking what ever comes to tongue, Also plans for our next trip. 

Our first break was in Maddhur (Famous for Maddhur Vada) where we had breakfast in Sahana Hotel (Pretty small one in size and huge one in taste).

Yummy idly with Maddhur vada

We reached the entrance of Mysore by 8.15 or so.... And started following the GPS to find our friends hide out place..... After some U turns we caught him and had one more round of breakfast.

Rahul and Srikanth

Now the actual thing is where to go around or which direction to head towards. Finally after 10 min of discussion we made a rough plan as below. 

• Ranganatittu (Bird Sanctuary)   
• Balmuri Falls (Kaveri River)
• Srirangapatana (Ranganatha Swamy Temple) 
• Finally Lunch at KSTDC hotel near Srirangapathana. 

1. Balamuri Falls:

                              This is a small man made falls for Kaveri river, You can also visit Balamuri Natha temple. Place is calm. We enjoyed the beauty of the place, Took some selfies too. 

Balmuri Falls

Me Rahul and Srikanth

Gopura

Swamy temple Entrance

Place is around 18KM from Mysore.

Balmuri: In Kannada,  Bala means Right and Muri means Curve.









Selfies with friends, You can spend your own time enjoying the natures beauty.








Temple Gopura. Shiva is the main God accompanied by Parmathi Devi and Lord Ganesha.









River was calm and we enjoyed the beauty with our eyes, You can get into water too, But need to be very careful as water level may increase at any level and it can be dangerous. You will not find any swim guards in place and you can also see an official notice on not to swim

Mother Kaveri

Farm Land

More Info : http://www.karnataka.com/mysore/balmuri-falls/

     

2. Ranganatithu Birth Sanctuary: 

                                                      This is a world famous place where birds from different part of world migrate to this place and we go to see them.  Place was calm and not much crowded. We enjoyed the Natures beauty once again, Birds, Crocodiles, Garden. etc. 

You Need to Pay for entrance and also for boat rides, Good parking place and hotel to fulfil hunger is available. 

On the Way Entering the Park

 You can see all the information related to birds here.

Kids will love this place and it also helps them to understand and see nature, Birds etc.

Information centre is also available.

Man made gardens and well maintained place

Can You Spot the crocodile, Yes... This place is full of crocodiles. If you want to experience the real fear take a boat ride and hope croc will come below your boat. :)

 Some more Pics for our memories

Map

 You can see variety of birds, You can go on a boat ride, You need to pay money for same in counters.
If you have a good camera then you will find all time is less, Click Click Click .......

A bird flying high.... Its always An inspiration to pierce the wind and fly high.








More Info : Wiki 

3. SriRangaPathana:
                                 This place is an historical one with many interesting things, RanganathaSwamy temple is very famous. This place is surrounded entirely with water. Kaveri river covers entire place. This was one of the added advantage for Tippu Sultan to protect and fight against enemies.

You have lot more historical and religious places around Srirangapathna, Nimishaamba temple, kshnambika Temple, Kings palace places, Art and literature, River banks etc etc. You can spend entire day visiting in and Around. Government buses are also available to take you around apart from Autos. You can also try a tanga ride.


Weekends crowd will be more compared to weekday.  You may need to wait for some time depending on crowd.

Gopura of Sriranganatha Swamy temple

More info : Wiki

4. Lunch Time at KSTDC Hotel 

This place is near to Srirangapathana, A well maintained and calm place to spend some value time for Lunch. its well maintained too. Rooms are available for stay. 

More info : http://www.karnatakaholidays.net/karnataka_hotels_srirangapatana.htm

 After an wonderful meal, we headed back towards Mysore to leave our beloved friend Srikanth.

Glimpse of his place (Mysore University)

Finally we started towards bengaluru city, Purchased some vegetables etc, I had some nap in between as our buddy Rahul took full responsibility of driving without even leaving to touch the wheels.

Reached Safe and with Satisfaction.

Me i.e Raghav, Rahul and Srikanth had made an wonderful memory for our life.

Please Google for near by places in and around Mysore.