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Free places to visit in Mysore
Kukkarahalli LakeThe lake Mysore walks at dawn: 4.5 km of shade, 180 bird species, no ticketDetails →
Jayalakshmi Vilas Mansion & Folklore MuseumFree, quiet and stacked with 6,500 pieces of South Indian folk art almost nobody sees
Regional Museum of Natural HistoryA free science museum on the lake bund, with rooms where children may touch the exhibitsDetails →
Mahabaleshwara Temple, Chamundi HillA thousand years old and thirty seconds off the queue for the famous temple beside it
Srikanteshwara Temple, NanjangudThe Kashi of the South, a living riverside pilgrimage town 45 minutes from MysoreDetails →
Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, SrirangapatnaAdi Ranga, the first of five reclining-Vishnu shrines strung along the KaveriDetails →
Venugopala Swamy Temple, KRS BackwatersSeventy years underwater, then moved to higher ground stone by numbered stoneDetails →
Chamundi Hill Sunset Point & the 1,008 StepsThe whole city laid out below, best earned on the 1,008-step pilgrim stairway
Karighatta HillSunset above two rivers meeting, on a hill the tour buses drive straight pastDetails →
KSIC Silk FactoryWatch Mysore silk being wovenDetails →
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