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Worth day trip out of Bangalore - Somanathpura and Mysore

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We planned a day trip to Somanathpura and Mysore from Bangalore. It was a sudden plan and we decided to visit with our car. We were four people, I, my spouse and my in-laws. In Somnathpura we visited Keshava Temple. It is a 12th-century temple of Lord Visnu, made of stone and around 140 KM from Bangalore. This temple is also known as Chennakesava Temple, is a Vaishnava Hindu Temple on the banks of River Kaveri. We started early in the morning for Somanathpura so to skip the city traffic and enjoy the mornings of city outskirts. Soon, we started to observe a lot of changes, the road spread out nicely, straight with no traffic, the people living in the homes beside the road seemed to wake up early, children playing in front of houses instead of holding any smartphone in their hands which is a usual sight in cities, farm fields where farming was in progress. It was my first time when I have observed the life of the people living outside Bangalore. I noticed their life is slow and simp...