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Have a nice walk on the embankment of Lingambudhi Lake. It will refresh you beyond description. This is a one-hour walk and ends up in Lingam Budhi village near the ring road. The famous University Layout is a residential suburb of this area. You can proceed another 300 meters, cross the ring road and visit the majestic Rabindranath Tagore Layout. An easier option is to visit Lingambudhi Park on the other side of the park which can be accessed by bus number 62 or 61 which are more frequently available from the city bus station. Alight at the last stop and walk to the park gate some hundred meters away. This park has a 1.3-kilometre-long perimeter and there is a lush green growth of bamboo trees all over the park. Birds of Lingambudhi Lake can be more easily spotted from this side.
Lingambudhi Lake is a lake in the Indian city of Mysore.
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The Happy Man Park near Kamakshi Hospital, some three kilometres from the Railway Station, is a very popular hangout for children and parents. The park is quite compact but contains a mini zoo and many hens and ducks roam around the lawns freely. The park is landscaped with a little stream and ‘wooden’ bridges. Music is played through loudspeakers scattered around the park. The park is open from 4:30PM to 9PM and the crowd are quite big around 6PM. It is also open for a while in the morning for the benefit of joggers. The main attraction of the park is a statue of a ‘Happy Man’ with a potbelly. The statue resembles Maitreya or Laughing Buddha, quite popular in Southeast Asian countries.
The perimeter is 3.6 km. There are many birds to see and the footpath is well maintained with small gardens around it.
Founded in 1968 and located in the University of Mysore campus, the museum has over 6500 folk art and folklore articles on display and exhibits arts and crafts from all over the state of Karnataka. It is housed in Jayalakhmi Mansion situated at Manasa Gangotri. The museum has detailed exhibits of "Yakshagana" and "Puppet art".
It was built by Maharani Regent Vani Vilasa Sannidhana, wife of Chamaraja Wodeyar, for her daughter Jayalakshami. It has around 200 rooms, an exotic dancing hall and a Kalyanmantap with intricately carved wood pillars. It was converted into a museum and stores artefacts about local folk and performing arts, tools and objects of various artisans and other archaeological findings. Princess Jayalakshmi was married to her maternal uncle. Dewan Sir M. Kantha Raja Urs. After independence, their son-in-law, Sirdar K. Basavaraj Urs, sold the property to the University of Mysore to start its postgraduate centre, and the then Vice Chancellor, Dr K.V. Puttapa christened the place as Manasa Gangothri.
Formerly known as the oriental library, it was started in 1891 and contains over 33,000 palm leaf manuscripts.
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An ashram in Mysore. It has beautiful gardens with bonsais among other plants. You can buy some herbal tea for an infusion, grown in the gardens.