Sunday 16 September 2012

September 16th India - Bangladore & Mysore

We arrived in Bangladore late Saturday night and headed straight for our hotel, an hours drive by bus over fairly ordinary bitumen roads. My first impressions were that it looked pretty much like a third world city, quite dirty and rundown. The truth is Bangladore is a city of 40 million people that has sprung up from nothing in just 20 years, and the development of infrastructure cannot keep pace with its growth.


Sunday morning, we headed for Mysore, approximately a six hour drive by bus. On the way we stopped to see a farmer making a type of sugar from sugar cane. The process is similar to that used in large refineries in Australia, just not quite good quality control. Though Ramesh, our Indian interpreter reckoned it was better than sugar



 We also stopped off to have a look at the Mysore Palace just out of Mysore. It was amazing, built at the turn of the century by the states king it is worth googling to have a look at more pictures as unfortunately we were unable to take many during our tour. But I did get a background shot while we had an elephant ride.


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