Mysore Vegetable Market

After our morning touring the City Palace, Temple and the statue of Nandi we convinced our Guide that we really did not want to go to a silk & sandalwood outlet.   We know that Mysore is a major producer of these items but couldn't face persuasive salesmen - no matter that our Guide could highly recommend them and the shop sells only genuine, high quality articles .....

So he delivered us to a hotel and suggested we took some lunch.   We really only wanted a light snack and the restaurant was a little grand so we ordered the lightest meal we thought we could get away with.   Actually it was delicious but we really couldn't do it justice, having had breakfast at our own hotel (a meal we never have at home).   Anyway, we had a bit of time to kill so had a wander round the streets nearby (with every passing Tuk-tuk stopping to offer assistance and bargain travel) until our driver and Guide returned.

I'm slowly amassing a file of 'character' photos which I hope will inspire me to get back to my drawing board when home again.

We then visited what our Guide described as a vegetable market ... it was one of the largest markets I've seen of its kind and was jam packed full of stalls selling fruit, vegetables, flowers (mostly marigolds and dried roses), spices, oils and dyes ... and it was vibrant with colour and noise.   He accompanied us briefly, explaining what some of the products were when we couldn't identify them, then he left us to our own devices for 30 minutes so we could just wander at leisure and take yet more photos ...

A real assault on all the senses ... what we love most about India.


As it is very time consuming selecting and downsizing photos for Blogger, I've just picked a selection from this afternoon and ran them through a resizing programme.   So, no descriptions here, just a lot of pics to look at.

Tomorrow we are being driven to Sultans Battery which is approx 130kms away.   We're heading for the hills and crossing the border in to Kerala where we'll stay for a couple of nights at 'Tranquil Hideaway' which is a plantation where we plan to do lots of walking with the 4 dogs belonging to the owners.    We're staying in a treehouse, apparently with luxury facilities 'en branch'.  (Are you there DiDi?  Remember Blackadder's first floor facilities??)  There is no WiFi  there so I won't be posting for a couple of days at least.  But you'll probably be relieved to hear that).