Mysore

After Hampi came Mysore. There were 4 highlights here for us, a temple on top of a hill/mountain, a fantastic Palace, a very interesting market, and then one of the biggest cathedrals in all of India.Above is a picture of the temple at the top. Nothing much to look at in our opinion, but we were told it was one of the holiest places in India for the Hindu's. There certainly seemed to be a lot of Indians there visiting, and apparently many people make pilgrimages here...
We bussed up, but walked the stairs down (45min). A third of the way down was another sacred monument. I don't go into whom/what/or why because I'd probably mess it up. Lets just say it was a big cow carved out of a single stone! Pretty impressive...
Mysore Palace and below its south gates. This place burnt down in the late 1800's and was rebuilt/finished on 1912 if I have my dates correct... A VERY impressive building.

The market... can you say BANANAS!

Jillene and I were disputing what the coloured piles were for, which is silly because we could have easily found out. The shopkeepers were touting pretty aggressivily to get us to come over ~ but we ignored them as you have to do most of the time in India otherwise it would take you 3 days to walk 1 block down the street. I'm pretty sure it is used for making incense though...
And finally, St. Phillamena's Cathedral. Was pretty impressive, and very difficult to get the entire structure into a single frame on the camera.

In the end we had a great couple days in Mysore, and the sites were only half of the highlight. We ate some SERIOUSLY good food here as well, as we hit the jackpot with an awesome restaurant on our first night here...