Mysore is a large town close to Bangalore. It is famous for its botanical garden, and for the Mysore Palace depicted above. The Palace had a rather turbulent past, it got completely destroyed several times over the last 600 years or so. This latest incarnation isn't even a hundred years old, and is the creation of a British architect. The main attaction is seeing how the building blends Indian, Asian and European motifs... There are some gorgeous ivory-inlay doors inside, but I couldn't document them here because the guards were quite extreme about cameras.