281209 - The Mysore & Ooty Trip

My sister came to Bangalore a few days back to enjoy the holidays. We planned to visit Mysore and Ooty for Christmas. We went to Mysore on 24th and conveniently stayed in Hotel SreeRam before planning for the next days visit to the city. When bachelors are on a trip there's not much to concern about but its exactly the opposite when you are on a family trip. We thought it better to book a travel agency Bus. We knew that our decision was bad mid-way into the next day.

We were ready bang-on-time next day morning but the Indian Bus came an hour late. And guess what? First, it was a Khatara Bus and second, we were the first to be pickedup which meant some more time wastage. The Khatara finished pickingup everyone by 10:20.

We first visited the Art Gallery which was no different than its twins. Then the zoo where we saw the giraffes and had to walk a lot. After that we went to Chamundi hills to give a visit to the temple. They were nice. In the afternoon, we went to visit the Mysore Palace which was simply awesome. In the evening, we headed towards the Brindavan Gardens where we enjoyed the musical night after struggling hard with the traffic.

Next day, we planned to go Ooty. The sad part of the plan was that we thought of coming back the same day and it was Chritmas time. We didn't get any seat in any of the buses and there were o cabs available for hire. We wasted our time uselessly near the bus Stand. By the time we got tickets in a bus @ 3 pm, there was no time left to visit any place in Mysore. So we went to sandlewood shop and the Mysore silk saaree shop.

We started for Ooty in the afternoon and reached there nearly mdnight. Next day, we booked a taxi and visited a few places. Boating was the centre of attraction as it was an awesome ride through the clean water of the Lake. We somehow managed to visit the important places except the Dodabetta point.

Overall Mysore is a nice place worth a proper visit. Ooty is also nice but not better than Munnar. I would like to give one more visit to Mysore, a couple of days infact.