Hi! Today was my second sight-seeing day here in Mysore. Yesterday I saw the main sights of Mysore and today I visited Srirangapattanam where I learned a lot more about Tipu Sultan and his relatives. Actually the Brits killed all his seven sons as well as him. They also took gold and silver doors from his and his parents tomb memorial. He built several nice palaces and fine fortresses though.Tomorrow evening I will once again take a sleeper bus, this time to Mang...

It is my second day in Bengaluru now. My impression of Bengaluru is much more positive than Chennai. May be that it is because I have only seen a small part of Bengaluru, but at least Gandhinagar section and the Cubbon park and its environment are nice. I also have a better hotel here, which may improve the impression. Yesterday I walked around Cubbon park to see the main architectural attractions there, and tried to visit National Museum, but it was closed due ...

Now my flu symptoms seem to be behind - at least so far. Yesterday and today I have done some heavy tourism here and tomorrow morning I will take a bus to Bengaluru (The official name of Bangalore I guess.) Yesterday I took a walk in George town, visited a couple of Hindu Temples and the Cathedral of St Thomas. I learnt there that it is one of the three churches in the world that has been built on top of graves of original apostles. The second oe is in Santiago ...

So this morning I had my last French breakfast so far in Pondycherry. After breakfast I went back to L'Ocean Hotel and checked out. Then I took auto-rickshaw to the bus station (50 INR) and took the first bus leaving for Chennai. The bus trip took, as expected, about 4 hours, costed 95 INR and ended at a bus station far from George town where I was aiming at. So auto-riskshaw again - this time cost was ultimately 300 INR although we had agreed on 250 as the drive...

Hi again. I have now been here in Puduchcheri (I am not confident about the writing as I have seen at least four different ways to write the current name. The previous, french name was Pondicherry) on the east coat of India for a weekend, and I like the place. I have enjoyed the variety of good food in this old French colony. It still has a lot of colonial buildings in its French town and next to French town lies old Tamil town. The whole old town is well within ...