Day 3 - My sore feet are sore from walking around Mysore, where I saw the Mysore Palace!

Headed off to the Bangalore railway station, bit of a problem knowing where to find our bus - the bus terminal was huge! With some helpful directions we found the bus, M was game enough to head off to the loo - but K took one look at the outside and decided she could wait for a better offer. 3 and 1/2 bumpy head banging hours later (they love/hate their speed bumps - in Mexico we learnt to beware the "topes") we arrived and started walking to the massive Maraharaja's Palace, situated within huge grounds and populated by plenty of Indian tourists. The main palace was amazing (once we managed to enter it, since the entrance was the opposite side from the bus station, so we had to walk all the way around the outside of the palace wall). The residential area of the palace was not quite as grand however, though there were some good bits, such as a huge sword and weapon collection.

After lunch we took in the rest of Mysore's sights, including a visit to the market which had a good variety of fruit, food, spice and incense stalls, after which we headed back to the bus station. Same confusion, which bus to take? We eventually found and chose a bus, to be told by the bus driver it was the same bus we took on the way there, unbelievable when they leave every 20 minutes! Shocking bus ride back (4 1/2hrs) we took the back seat and K laid down only to be tipped off by one of those speed bumps - more war wounds. We headed straight to dinner and fell into bed.