Bangalore, India Travel Blogs

Mall rats...in India???
Feb 22, 2007

... this nation I feel like could live in without a major culture shock. She Said: Our journey to Bangalore was our LAST overnight train in India! Woohoo! Hurray! As usual, the other passengers in our compartment were all men with snoring issues... ...

A journey from broad-band to broad-land
Nov 10, 2004 (38 photos)

... of mixing business with pleasure prevents crossing the proverbial line between work and play. Besides being a high-tech haven, Bangalore, is a stopover for most travelers. The lack of cows indicates its Western orientation. It is known for its food, ...

A jaunt to Karnataka
Aug 13, 2008 (15 photos)

... we began sightseeing around B'lore.       Prior to its boom as the technological capital of India, Bangalore was actually referred to as "the garden city."  Nowadays there is significantly less green space and many more ...

BANGALORE
Mar 16, 2006 (5 photos)

... believe me when I say we were scared to death and more than a little relieved to arrive in Bangalore in one piece. Bangalore is the IT hub of India and resembles 1950s New York. We couldn't afford to stay in the MG Road area so had to make do with a ...

Back to Bangalore, again
Oct 10, 2006 (18 photos)

... (an Indian IT company) in Bangalore. So, after a couple days of recuperation for John's digestive system, we flew from Bangalore to the sprawling metropolis of Bombay for the weekend. Bombay is oppressively hot and humid, even into the early fall. The ...

Dancing Elephants Sipping Beer on the Backwaters
Feb 13, 2006 (16 photos)

... Mysore we then bid farewell to Neil and Liz, and now it's just Ant and me again seeking adventures new. We are now in Bangalore, and we have spent the entire day shopping... yes Ant managed to shop for 5 hours - without a break. For the first time ...

Edge of the Seat Stuff!
Oct 5, 2007 (23 photos)

... the most terrifying coach journey to date where we all feared for our lives on more than one occasion we have arrived in Bangalore. Our first impressions were not good and Charlie hated it! Tom was not as disgusted but not overly happy, whereas I on ...

Bangalore
Apr 9, 2007

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Modern Bangalore
Jan 2, 2009 (13 photos)

... shop vendors, shopping malls can seem like a god-send). We also had probably the worst hotel experience on our trip. Bangalore is a city of expensive hotels oriented towards businessmen, so even its crummy hotels are overpriced. We stayed in a place which ...

Prelude to McChristmas
Dec 24, 2007 (18 photos)

Bangalor has got to be my favorite Indian city... after Mumbai of course. I only spend one day there, and that was plenty. Bangalore is a place to live, not a place to visit and in a sense, that's why I liked it.   It was an early arrival - 5:30 am. ...

Cricket, palace, temple and of course, food!
Mar 28, 2005 (3 photos)

... from 35 to 34) and humid Kerala for the dry 'cosmopolitan' city of Bangalore. Prime reason for visiting Bangalore was for Michael to catch the India v Pakistan Test Series. This was also a good excuse for Kate to learn some more Indian cooking. ...

Hello people! it has been a while it seems ...
May 28, 2002 (6 photos)

... fill in details when i get home next week :( but for now a brief summary of the past few days in India. I left Goa on a flight to Bangalore with a smile as the ground crew of the Jet airways i was taking decided to overule the security staff and not ...

Bangalore
Mar 15, 2006 (3 photos)

15th March 2006 So we left hot and sticky Mysore and took the Shatabi Express train (in A/c chair class, no less) to Bangalore. Wow if we thought Mysore was hot and sticky Bangalore was a million times worse!! A typical city, the 5th largest in India. ...

Bangalore Bangs!
May 22, 2006 (5 photos)

... society and venture out at night, singly, and have an alcoholic beverage in the company of single men. . Big taboos here. Bangalore all in all is a relatively clean, well-educated city, and fairly well laid out with street signs and such. Through all ...

Bangalore is a Bore
Feb 3, 2009 (32 photos)

... from Montana (Jamie) use to work in Bangalore for 2 years, he just moved (to Oz) and is engaged to a girl from Bangalore.  I wanted to meet his friends, check out his city and meet his fiances sister.   The only problem with this plan is ...

Vipassana Meditation
Jan 31, 2008

I'm not gonna talk about Bangalore as i didn't really see any of it. The Vipassana centre where i was to be imprisoned had several buildings until construction, something they really should have informed you of before you enrolled, as its kinda hard to ...

IT capital of asia
Apr 26, 2007 (17 photos)

... kms from Chennai.  The length was mostly a result of the poor road conditions, I'm told, that exist all over India. Hotel in Bangalore was decent.  It was walking distance to Brigade and MG roads, the two "happening" places in the ...

Bangalore - The Wedding
May 3, 2006

... It makes you smile! And never ceases to amuse me - clearly. Unfortunately, like the other cities that I have visited in India, Bangalore is dusty and polluted. There was the usual smell of something burning which I had forgotten during my time in Kerala ...

We have landed in Mother India!
Mar 7, 2009

... and The Nandi Temple and just been voyeurs of the traffic and scenes along the crazy, congested streets.  Riding around Bangalore was a fascinating education in itself, if not nerve rattling!  The equinamity with which the drivers manuever the chaos of the ...

bangalore
Jun 1, 2008

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Bikes take longer to get ready than women!
Jun 28, 2008

AH!!!!, one day delayed thanks to St. Augustine (the 500 Bull) being not quite ready yet. Changed the front wheel to nylogrip tyres, inserted extra tubes into the tyres and drilled an extra hole each in the rims for easy inflating Tomorrow for sure ...

India
Jul 24, 2007 (15 photos)

... all of Gloucester was flooded. I found it ironic that I was going to have my first shower that week in India!! Upon arrival in Bangalore we were greeted by traffic everywhere, the beeping of horns the shouting of people, it was electric! Once piling ...

Wildlife
Aug 25, 2006 (5 photos)

... people only make 50 Rs a day, a good beggar can make up to 500 Rs. We got off in Wilson Garden, on the outskirts of Bangalore and visited a new shopping mall that had a lot of security and who first refused to let me in with my bag. But I was not going ...

A Change of Mind - Golfing at Eagleton
Aug 12, 2008 (5 photos)

... ! One of my hopes on this trip was to play some golf with the kids. In fact the service apartment we had in Bangalore was purposefully chosen as it was adjacent to a golf course, KGA (Karnataka Golf association). I had harbored visions of going to the ...

Back in Bangalore
Dec 27, 2007 (3 photos)

... camera took a bit of a back seat as we only had 6 days to soak in the amazing place. We are back in Bangalore. Convention starts tomorrow. Has been wonderful spending time with the workers and frineds. Tonight we are taking Lloyd, Tom and Max Bowan ...

Bangalore
Sep 13, 2006

... (9W) #441 Dep Mumbai 5:40 pm Arv Bangalore 7:15 pm Bangalore Hotel:  The Taj West End Hotel Race Course Road Bangalore, 560 001 Tel:  011-91-80-6660-5660 http://www.tajhotels.com/Luxury/The%20Taj%20West%20End,BANGA LORE/default.htm

Bangalore
Mar 10, 2005 (1 photos)

... few days, and my (Sameer's) parents left to continue their travels in Greece with my brothers. So Sarita and I headed off to Bangalore, where we spent the next week and a half with her folks, meeting family, shopping a bit, and generally relaxing. I also ...

back in Bangalore
Mar 14, 2005

... I left Puttaparthi on friday morning after a teary departure saying goodbye to my friend, Sai Geetha (at the school)I landed in Bangalore friday afternoon after a 5 hour bus ride. It is much cooler here, only 32c...Much easier sleeping at night! We had an ...

My first full day in India
Mar 2, 2008 (24 photos)

... nbsp; Finally when we boarded, we just walked on.  They boarded in rows but it was for the most part ignored.   Arrived in Bangalore with no issues.  It is 1am in the next morning and it took 1 hr to get my bags.  There was no other ...

Day 13: Bangalore - Garden City
Apr 27, 2006 (3 photos)

... has now become quite a cosmopolitan city with the raise of IT job opportunities. There are people from all over India who live in Bangalore. Quite a few foreigners too. You will find a westerners in hotels, most on business trips. And I also found that ...