Srirangapatna

The second day of the Mysore trip we left early to explore the least explored historical city of Srirangapatna. Once we reached there we realized why it was least explored. It wasn't much. Not from a normal tourists point of view. Nothing much appealing. No feast to the eye sorts. There were the remains of the Srirangapatna Fort build by the Tipu Sutan . And further that route the Sri Ranganathaswany Temple.

SRI RANGANATHASWAMY TEMPLE, SRIRANGAPATNA

We then left to see the Triveni Sangama the meeting point of 3 rivers namely Kaveri, Kabini and Hemavathi. The sangama is auspicious for Hindus as a point to do the death rites. And that is exactly what is was. A completely spiritual place where people came to do the death rites. There were small Shiva lingas in the exapanse of the visible river.

TRIVENI SANGAMA, SRIRANGAPATNA

Throughout our journey through Srirangapatna we had to pay in many places to park , to enter or just to pass by . And we were kind of getting pissed. We decided to visit the Gumbaz of Tipu Sultan and his Summer palace. But again we had to pay so we chucked the Summer Palace and decided on just the Gumbaz. It was an  good place . Quite small structure but huge well kept gardens . Had a mosque inside and it was prayer time .There were many devotees around.

TIPU SULTAN GUMBAZ

GARDENS,TIPU SULTAN GUMBAZ

THE GUMBAZ AND THE MOSQUE

THE REMAINS OF TIPU SULTAN,HYDER ALI AND FATIMA BEGUM

REMAINS OF OTHER RELEVANT ROYALS AROUND THE MAIN GUMBAZ.

On the way back to Bangalore we stopped at Channapatna - the land of toys, to check out their infamous wooden toys, at the stores on the roadside.

CHANNAPATNA WOODEN TOYS