Brindavan Gardens - Mysore

BRINDAVAN GARDENS - MYSORE (KRS DAM)

Brindavan Gardens is a garden located in the state of Karnataka in India. Brindavan Gardens is one of the most popular tourist place in Mysore. It is situated towards the north west of Mysore at a distance of about 20 to 22 Kms from Mysore Palace. Around 2 million people visits Brindavan Gardens every year.

Brindavan Gardens

At present the Garden is maintained by a Government of Enterprises - Cauvery Niravari Nigama (Irrigation Department). It is spread across area of around 60 acres. Brindavan Gardens lies adjoining the Krishnaraja Sagara Dam (KRS) which is built across the river Kaveri. Built in 1924, the river confluence of three river warer - kaveri, Hemavathy and Lakshmantheertha. The Dam work started in the year 1927 and completed in 1932.

Fountains

The Brindavan Gardens is a show garden that has fountains, park and also Boat rides beneath the dam.The main attraction of the garden is Musical Fountain which is also called as Dancing Fountains in which bursts of water are sync to the music of western and traditional songs. The lighting in the musical fountains glitters like gold to all the tourists present over the side of the Musical Fountain. Goddess Cauvery Statue is placed near the Musical Fountain. 

Goddess Cauvery

Fountains

The Brindavan Gardens are illuminated from 7:00pm to 8:00pm on Weekdays and from 7:00pm to 9:00pm on Weekends. Entry fee for Adults INR - 15/-.

How to Reach Brindavan Gardens:

By Road - 22kms away from Mysore city

Bus facility available from Mysore City Bus Stand.

Brindavan Garden Timings:

Week Days - 6:00am to 9:00pm

Saturdays & Sundays - 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Musical Fountain

Chamundi Hills - Mysore

CHAMUNDI HILLS

Chamundi Hills is one of the major tourist place in Mysore city. From all the corners of the city you can view Chamundi hills. Chamundeshwari temple is situated on the top of the Chamundi hills which is 3,500 ft above sea level and located at a distance of about 10 to 12kms from the Mysore Palace. Its average elevation is 1,000 meters.

View from the top of the hill

A view point is situated just 1 km before the temple where all the tourists see the panoramic view of the Mysore city. Especially it is great to watch some beautiful places like Racecourse, Mysore Palace, Lalith Mahal Palace, Karanji Lake & Kukaralli Lake. View of the city looks amazing especially on Sunday evenings from 7pm as the Mysore palace will be illuminated with many lights. It glitters like a gold when u watch it from the view point.

View from the top of the hills

The temple has a very beautiful idol of the Goddess Chamundeshwari. Goddess chamundeshwari is also referred as Goddess Kali/Goddess Durga. Bus facility is available to chamundi hills every 15 to 30 minutes from Mysore city bus stand which is very near to Mysore Palace. Volvo buses are also available.

Other than buses there is a way to reach Chamundeshwari temple on  the hills. In 1659 Dodda Devaraja Wodeyar built 1,000 steps to reach Chamundi hills. On the way to hills through this steps there is a huge Nandi statue (lord shiva's bull) This is one of the largest bull statue in India which is 16 ft tall at the front and 25 ft in length. You can reach the Nandi statue at 700th step.

 

Nandi Statue

Near to chamundeshwari temple there is a Mahishasura Statue - which is built in 1659. Mahishasura was ruling the Mysore city. He was a Buffalo headed monster.

Mahishasura Statue

Chamundeshwari Temple Pooja Timings:

Morning   - 7.30am to 2.00pm

Afternoon - 3.30pm to 6.00pm

Evening    -  7.30pm to 9.00pm

How to Reach Mysore

How to Reach Mysore

As i have mentioned in my previous blogs, Mysore is the second largest city in the state of Karnataka and it is also known as Cultural Capital of Karnataka. People travel to Mysore by Road, by Train and by Air

By Air : There is a small domestic airport in Mysore. As of now only Jet Airways caters flights in Mysore. From Mysore to Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi. Mysore Airport is also known as "Mandakalli Airport"

Mysore Airport has all good facilities like Baggage services, places to eat and shop, Duty free shopping and also proper connectivity of city bus to connect to Railway Station and Bus stand.

The nearest Airport to Mysore is Bangalore International Airport which is 140km away from Mysore city. All the domestic airlines in the country operate their flights to Bangalore from all the major cities in the country. Round the clock there will be help desk in Bangalore and Mysore Airport.

Mysore Airport

By Train: Mysore Railway station is situated very near to bus stand. Mysore is connected with a number of trains to Bangalore every day. Every day at 11a.m there is a super fast express train "Shatabdi Express" train which connects Mysore to Madras (Chennai) via Bangalore. 

A Help Desk is available in Railway station round the clock to help the deligates and travellers who travel to Mysore. Almost every one hour there is a train which travel from Mysore to Bangalore. Two way work is in under process. Once the work completes it will take only two hours to reach Mysore from Bangalore.

Mysore Railway Station

By Road: Mysore bus transportation is a part of Karnataka State Road Transportation Corporation (KSRTC). KSRTC provide excellent bus service all over karnataka and also to other states in India. Mysore is just 140 kms to the south west of Bangalore. Travelling from Mysore to Bangalore would be really a pleasant experience because of those 4 way neat roads. KSRTC provide different class of buses to Mysore from Bangalore 24/7. Airavat volvo bus is famous in KSRTC with multi axle & A.C coach.

Buses runs every 5 minutes from Bangalore to Mysore. As there are different class of buses runs every day from Mysore to Bangalore, there are many choices for all the travellers who would love to travel by road. Its just a 3 Hours journey by Road from Bangalore to Mysore. NICE road is under construction. Once it is done, it will take around 1.5 or 2 hours to Mysore from Bangalore.

Mysore - Bangalore Highway

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Culture of Mysore

As i stated in my previous blog about Mysore. Mysore is also known as "Cultural Capital" of Karnataka.

Mysore is a city where all religions exists from many centuries. Mysore is famous in all different fields from many centuries. It is Mysore Style. Painting, Architecture, Music, Poetry, Dasara festival, etc,. Over a period of time as this culture spread over it was prefixed with the word "Mysore" to identify the unique cultural heritage. Today in Karnataka the best quality jasmine flowers are also known as famous "Mysooru Maligae" (Mysore Jasmine).  

Mysore Culture is a fine combination of the historic heritage and the contemporary achievements of the city. As a land of the maharajas Mysore has always been an appealing city. The culture of Mysore speaks a lot of the past when this beautiful city of Karnataka was a dominion of the brave kings.  

The festivals of Mysore indicates the great Culture of Mysore and also the Cultural unity of this City. As i mentioned before, there are different religion of people are living in Mysore. Mysore become a common cultural canopy under which the various festivals are celebrated by every one.

Navarathri Festival is one of the famous and long festival which happens in Mysore. This festival will be celebrate for a nine long days. Dasara is celebrated by the people and Maharaja of Mysore by inagurating a elephant procession. Taking out a procession around the city in which Goddess Chamundeshwari idol is placed on an elephant (this is also called as Jamboo Savari). The whole city will be decorated with Lights during Dasara festival in Mysore.

In my next writing, i will write How to reach Mysore. Thanks!