Mysore

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Kishkinda Moolika Bonsai Garden450 bonsai laid out as a meditation, in an ashram nobody thinks to check
Kukkarahalli LakeThe lake Mysore walks at dawn: 4.5 km of shade, 180 bird species, no ticketDetails →
Oriental Research InstituteThe library where the lost Arthashastra surfaced in 1905, among 60,000 palm-leaf textsDetails →
Jayalakshmi Vilas Mansion & Folklore MuseumFree, quiet and stacked with 6,500 pieces of South Indian folk art almost nobody sees
Mahabaleshwara Temple, Chamundi HillA thousand years old and thirty seconds off the queue for the famous temple beside it
Melukote Temple TownRamanuja's hill town: a diamond crown, a summit shrine and that famous stepped tank
TalakaduDunes over a buried temple city, with walkways between what has been dug outDetails →
Venugopala Swamy Temple, KRS BackwatersSeventy years underwater, then moved to higher ground stone by numbered stoneDetails →
Karighatta HillSunset above two rivers meeting, on a hill the tour buses drive straight pastDetails →
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