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Mysore - Ooty

Trip to the South India

Day 1

We had planned this trip during a long weekend during Dusshera. We booked the flight to Kannur as it was the nearest airport to Mysore

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We had pre booked the car for the trip from the driver we met during our last trip to Kerala. So we left from Kannur and reached Mysore in the late evening. The city was lit up as it was Dusshera

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We went Mysore Palace during the night as we had heard that the place is lit up and looks amazing. But unfortunately, it wasn't allowed to enter the palace during the evening time. So we could just see it from outside and see the entrance lit up

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For dinner, we wanted to eat something light, so we went for this place which served all types of cusines. It was like a food truck but had dining also in it. They also served some amazing ice creams and bakery options at their store

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This was our stay. The rooms were good enough but the only problem was we found it diffucult to find the location on the map and also due to language barrier with the driver it took us a little longer to find the location

Day 2

The next day we were ready to explore Mysore city. This was our 1st stop. After visiting this temple, we went down to see the Nandi temple. From the Chamundi hill, we could see the beautiful city view

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We had to wait a little as the zoo was supposed to open by 9. This was by far the most amazing and biggest zoo i had ever seen. It had all the animals and birds which one would have just heard of or seen in pictures. It is MUST VISIT

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Next stop was Jagmohan palace. This place was previously home for the Kings but now is used as an art gallery and museum

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We visited the Mysore Palace again during the day. It is a very huge palace and almost everything is open inside. The architecture was picturesque and beautiful. The palace was crowded but we managed to see everything

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One of the most beautiful Cathedral in Mysore

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Post lunch, we went to visit the famous Tipu Sultan's palace

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Later, during the evening we visited the Brindavan garden. The route had a lot of traffic jam and the place was also very crowded. We saw some light show and went by boat till the garden. The place is hyped due to light show but wasn't worth it

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Day 3

Next day,we left for Ooty. Thr route we chose was from Bandipur tiger reserve. Although, we didn't see any tigers, we could only see a lot of deers and peacocks. The route was very scenic and had pleasent weather

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Mysuru

 to 

Ooty

Car

The route to Ooty was very beautiful. It took us almost 4 hours to reach as we took a halt to eat breakfast one the way.

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Mountain

We finally reached the Queen of hills. When we reached it was raining heavily so we decided to go checkin to the hotel and freshen up. Later, when we got out it was sunny so we explored the places of Ooty

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We went to Coonoor by car and wanted to experience the toy train from Coonoor to Ooty but we couldn't as we missed the last train. So we just went to see the toy train at the station. It was a very pretty and colorful station and train

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There were very less places to visit in Ooty. It is honeymoon destination. We went to Ooty lake and just took some pictures. One can do boating here as well but we didn't wanna do it. This place was kids friendly

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There was this another lake named Avalanche, but we decided to just see it from the view point and just spend some time watching the beautiful hills of Ooty and enjoy thr weather

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Day 4

This was our last day, we were heading back to Kannur and had to catch flight so we took this beautiful route while driving through the Nilgiris

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Ooty

 to 

Kannur

Car

The distance was long. It took us almost 6-7 hours to reach.

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Our flight was at 3:30 and we reached back to bay with some beautiful memories

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