Bangalore
Travel Blogs from Bangalore, India
Mall rats...in India???
... 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 ...
A journey from broad-band to broad-land
... fear 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 ...
A jaunt to Karnataka
... 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
... but 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 ...
Back to Bangalore, again
... (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
... From 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 ...
Edge of the Seat Stuff!
... 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 ...
Prelude to McChristmas
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 ...
Cricket, palace, temple and of course, food!
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Modern Bangalore
... 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 ...
Bangalore Bangs!
... Indian 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 ...
Bangalore
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 is a Bore
... mine 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 ...
Vipassana Meditation
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
... 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
... 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 ...
We have landed in Mother India!
... 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 ...
Serving lunch at the Orphanage
... in these pictures. The girls will often stay until they are 21 or so, marriage age - there is a shortage of females in India so they do "ok". The boys usually leave earlier to work. The somewhat comforting news in this story is that a ...
Bangalore....
... their favourite game was asking me something in Tamil, then listen to me answer in Tamil which they loved. So Bangalore is a nice, easy place to live in India, but honestly, not quite as fun, I didn’t get hit by a motorbike or nothing whilst there! ...
Bikes take longer to get ready than women!
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 ...
Wildlife
... took lots of pictures and I can't wait to see the ones we took of the monkeys with their little babies. Getting back to Bangalore was much easier and after escaping from some very persistent beggars we boarded the bus. It seems that these beggars are ...
A Change of Mind - Golfing at Eagleton
... ! 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 ...
Into the heat...
... hours Raj started to feel really unwell. We guessed this was due to happen but poor Raj really suffered. The first few days in Bangalore were spent resting and eating fruits. When Raj felt up to it we went to one of the malls called Mantri Mall ...
Bangalore
... (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 ...
Colourful countryside near Belur
... any other. All the famous coffee plantations and greenery are at least 30 km away. We had to return to Bangalore, a good five hour drive, so we decided against going any further. Some colourful pictures from the countryside between Belur and ...


