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<\/a>\nWe arrived at around 11, and were amazed to find that we were about the only people there. We paid for our tickets, and a “camera fee” to take pictures, which seems to be a favorite add on at the tourist sites right now. The cell phone camera fee was lower and I figured my cell phone is better than my camera at indoor photos anyway, so all these pictures are taken on Mervin and my cell phone cameras.<\/p>\n
When we first entered, we paid for the tickets and then ascended to the top of this staircase:<\/p>\n
Beyond the great hall, we entered the courtyard the men of the palace lived around:<\/p>\n On Friday, Mervin took me to see a few places around Bangalore. I have a lot of pictures, so I am splitting the post into two parts. This first one is dedicated to Bangalore Palace. Construction of Bangalore Palace began in 1874, and the first iteration was completed in 1878. Additions and improvements have continued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"blogarise-slider-full":false,"blogarise-featured":false,"blogarise-medium":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Elizabeth Soule","author_link":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/?author=2"},"uagb_comment_info":7,"uagb_excerpt":"On Friday, Mervin took me to see a few places around Bangalore. I have a lot of pictures, so I am splitting the post into two parts. This first one is dedicated to Bangalore Palace. Construction of Bangalore Palace began in 1874, and the first iteration was completed in 1878. Additions and improvements have continued…","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wander-with-me.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nThere was lots of art on the walls as we climbed the stairs, including these portraits:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nAt the top of the stairs, you could look out across the Great Hall:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>
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\nOn the other side was the women’s courtyard:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nThere was art and photos on all of the walls:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nThere was also a large garden in the front:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"