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Mysore: Day Trip with family

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  Mysore: A family visit Inside Mysore Palace (The Royal Court)           Place:                         Mysore (Mysuru) Closest Airport:          Mysore Closet Train Station:   Mysore Date:                          14th Jan, 2021 Distance from Bangalore: 200 km (via NH4/150A), 4 hours Mysore palace from outside My elder sister (Didi) had come down to Bangalore, from Patna, with my adorable and beautiful niece Pihu. In fact, Pihu had come 3 weeks earlier with my younger sister Pinki. Didi had come for a week. We planned for family day trip to Mysore.  Reaching Mysore: We heard that a lot of road construction work was going on Mysore Road and it would be better to take NH75 even if it was longer. Since, it would take 4 hours one way, we decided to drive to Mysore evening earlier, spend night there and then cover as much we can during the day. We booked a big family room at KSTDC Mayura hotel in Mysore (close to Mysore palace). We started from Bangalore at around 5:30PM (after the offic

Orchha : A hidden Gem

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Orchha MP Orchha View Place - Orchha, M.P. Closest airport - Bhopal or Gwalior Closest train station - Orchha, Jhansi Place we stayed - Orchha Palace - https://orchhapalace.com/ Panoramic View of Orchha from Raja Mahal   Motivation - I had been enjoying my "work from home" from my hometown for almost 15 days now. We would be going back to Bangalore in another 15 days. This was probably the first time, my parents, siblings with respective spouses were together in Kareli. So, I decided to plan one family trip where my parents had not been yet. Since my parents also love to travel, it was little tough to find such a place.  After some research and help from my sister in law, Richa, I found a perfect place, Orchha!! Orchha is 330 km from Kareli. Our initial plan was to stay for 3 days but due to last min conflict in my Dad's schedule, we had to reduce the duration to 2 days - which I later realised was not good decision. If you want to really discover Orchha, I suggest yo