Mysore Coorg trip- Day-1

Mysore Coorg trip

Summer is many people's favorite time of the year because of the long days, warmsunshine, comfortable weather, bright colours, and many other tempting attraction. A trip to South India is known for its beautiful scenery, rich historical sites, flawless architecture, blissful weather, and. sets you up to enjoy beaches, wildlife sanctuaries, ancient temples, hill stations, and backwaters and unforgettable experiences .So we decided to go four day south India trip for Mysore and Coorg.

 Mysore is also called Mysuru and is famously known as the City Of Palaces. The city owing to its rich history, splendid architecture, sandalwood goods and silk sarees, attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world. Besides being home to one of the largest palaces of India,

Mysore is a lovely place with exceptionally amazing monuments, enormous palaces.   with a major tourist attraction in Karnataka so, we decided to go see this historic city.  I love going on such trips; so with my heart pounding with great excitement and anticipation, we began our road trip  from Bangalore to Mysore and it turned out to be one of the most glorious and action-packed ones that I have had so far.Mysore town is a place of wide roads and trees, fields intended to be parks  light and air.

We visited following places in Mysore- Chamundi hills, Mysore Zoo, Brundavan Garden, Mysore Palace

 Mysore Zoo:-

 

It's certainly the second sought after attraction in the city after Mysore Palace.There are many reasons for its popularity. The location is an obvious plus point from a itinerary point. More importantly this is a sprawling zoo with a great variety of exotic and rare animals. The animals are let in a natural habitat like environment. For the visitors it is a joyous place to explore in a picnic style.

Mysore zoo is one of the oldest zoo in the country. We have seen animals like Giraffe, Gorilla and few bucks which may not be available anywhere else in India. The zoo also houses Chimpanzee. The huge trenches draws big crowd. Zoo is within town and you can pick an auto to reach there

Brundavan Garden –

The Brindavan Gardens, a celebrated beauty spot in south India is world famous for its symmetric design. It is one of the most beautifully laid out terrace gardens in the world. The creation of this garden in the Krishnaraja Sagar Dam site has been the achievement of Sir Mirza Ismail, the then Dewan of the princely State of Mysore. The beautification of the whole dam complex was conceived by Sir Mirza Ismail. 

 

Modeled on the design of the Shalimar Gardens of Kashmir in the Mughal style, the garden is enriched with a number of terraces, parterres, fountains, running and cascading waterchannels, water chutes, lush green lawns, flower beds, shrubs and trees. Today, the Brindavan Gardens is world famous for its ethereal beauty, grandeur and illumination/ musical fountain.

 

The garden extends over an area of 60 acres and it is laid out in the three terraces, which ends in a horseshoe shape. The slopes are planted with colourful Bougainvilleas and ornamental plants. This garden is a public park and it is one of the important tourist spots of India. The garden is enriched with innumerable fountains decorated with coloured lighting. 

 

The illuminated running waters and fountains with changing colours of lights is an event that the tourists can look forward to in the evenings. The garden has many open spaces, lawns, illuminated flower beds and ornamental plants. It also has well laid out roads and pathways. 

 

The Brindavan Gardens is the best-illuminated terrace garden in India. The boating pond in the midst of the garden is a location where the visitors can enjoy a boat ride. The whole garden when illuminated is an enchanting site to see.

 

North Brindavan consists of an area encompassing four extensive terraces. In each of the four terraces, extensive lawns, many ornamental annual and perennial flowerbeds and rows of ornamental trees are found. Boating lake connects the both north & south brindavan gardens. A concrete footpath is laid on the side of this lake.

 

To view this garden we have to take a complete walk of Garden and then take one way Boat ride to reach the Musical Fountain Place, and then return walking.

 

Timings to visit Brindavan Gardens:

Brindavan Gardens is open from 8 AM to 9 PM.  Ticket sales close 30 min before closing time. Musical fountain runs after sunset, 6.30 PM and 7.30 PM (weekdays), 8.30 PM (weekends). It is recommended to visit just before sunset hours – around 4 to 5 PM, explore the gardens in daylight, witness the musical fountain after sunset and return.

How to reach Brindavan Gardens:

Brindavan Gardens is 145 kms from Bengaluru and 18 kms from Mysuru. Mysuru airport is the closest airport just 25 kms away. Mysuru is also the closest train station. Taxis can be hired from Mysuru city to reach Brindavan Gardens.