Mysuru: Even as Dasara celebration has reached a feverish pitch with ever-increasing flow of visitors, the city this morning was witness to a Heritage Tonga Ride by married couples, dressed in their traditional attire.

The event was organised as part of Dasara by the Department of Archaeology, Museums and Heritage in association with Tourism Department to publicise and promote the architectural heritage structures and tourist spots in the city and also to revive the almost vanished Tonga Ride experience.

Couples dressed in their traditional best — men wearing the traditional Mysore Peta and dressed in Dhoti-Shalya and women in Silk sarees and Mysore Mallige — were taken for a ride in more than 20 specially decorated Tongas. The participants included ‘Su From So’ Kannada film actor Praka

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