Mysore to Bylakuppe

So a very bumpy road journey on the bounciest bus I have ever travelled on - but we made it and found our hotel and the yoga shala where we spent three days practising with the very precise and patient Venkatesh. Mysore is certainly the richest feeling city we have been in to date and the cleanest but also the most polluted. Still the people remain very welcoming and we really enjoyed our time there.....Martine found the nurse she was supposed to see to give her the letter from her godfather, we all found silk and had clothes made, went to an amazing temple an hour out of Mysore called Somnapur - incredible stone sculptures piled high - quite an incredible sight, and we had a great evening for my 40th birthday first at the Lalitha Mahal and then the Olive Garden, Unfortunately I got sick the day after (22nd) and spent most of the afternoon in bed or being sick. Better today thank goodness and we have headed to Bylakuppe accompanied by the delightly Sonam who arrived in Bylakuppe in full tibetan dress and we drove 2 hours to Bylakuppe - a vast tibetan community with about 10000 monks studying and living here. Quite an amazing experience to be here with so many monks and a completely different culture to the Indian one just a few kilometres away....Its not every day you see monks in burgundy robes on motorbikes drinking coke! We are here tomorrow and then via Hunsur travelling back to Mysore to catch the train to Chennai and then the return home to France on 27th....all going quickly. There may be one more entry before the end of the trip and then a resume with some more photos when we return to France....goodnight to all Namaste