Day 10- Mysore

We left Bangalore and headed for Mysore, India about 3 hours away. Along the way we stopped at a rest stop that had the restaurants Coffee Day (India's Starbucks) and KFC. On the way to Mysore, we also stopped by the Ranganathaswamy Temple where I was able to have fresh coconut water for the first time since Jamaica in July. Again all the similarities between the two is so interesting to me. It makes sense why but I never thought of India that way. Very cool.

When we arrived in Mysore we checked into our rooms in Infosys. XIME was a good way to get more of a feel of college life in a hostel, the accommodates there really made me really appreciate what we got with our rooms at Infosys. However, let me just say the Infosys campus on its own, is nothing like I've seen before. It's a training center for the entry level computer engineering employees. Every year the company takes in 1000 new grads, sends them to the training center in Mysore for six months and then adds them to the workforce upon completion. Here there's a pool, movie theatre that shows movies before they are released in theaters, several cafeterias, Dominos pizza, gym, bowling alley, hair salon, medical center, pharmacy, store, track, lake and much much more. The campus is beautiful. If you think you know India, see this place first.

Mysore Palace was next after checking in and is one of the many sites to see in the Mysore district. Poor Darrell, he ended up having to pay the foreigner price.

The whole foreigner thing is a conversation all on it's own. The palace was very pretty but so crowded! It's like going to some place like George Washington's Mount Vernon where you see the place in a cattle like way. Still seeing the illumination at night was worth it for seeing a once in a lifetime thing like that.

Also elephants!

So far one of my favorite foods here is Upma.  Upma is basically flavored Cream of Wheat.