Travel Blogs from Bangalore, India
Westernised India
... cant believe it! just as we were settling in and things were getting easier we have to say goodbye. arrived in bangalore yesterday, got a sleeper coach here overnight. it was surprisingly comfortable and we slept most of the 12 hours here. ...
Life in Bangalore
... Julia in Mysore. There are so many beautiful Sari's that it is very hard not to buy them all. Finally on the subject of Bangalore traffic. The traffic is bad here in the city. I will not complain about US traffic again!!! Also you can see so many ...
A Week in Two Days
... takes two days in Bangalore to find it. It began and ended with a 6 hour bus ride to and from Coimbatore City to Bangalore, but in between, we literally fit a weeks worth of adventures into about 48 hours. First was meeting my adopted Indian family. I ...
Love Affair with Everywhere-Bangalore
... guy to bring the bottle just so I could see that it was actually an Indian bubbly:)) http://www.vivantabytaj.com/mgroad-bangalore/Dining/graze-Restaurant.html Rim Naam at the Oberoi DELICIOUS! famous thai place in Bangalore. it definitely lived up to its ...
Mission: Aborted
... one of the canals, soaking up the humid Keralan air and that glorious sun "God" provided his own country with before heading to Bangalore (known as Bengaluru since 2006). As the IT capital of India and now much of the world, or as Thomas L. Friedman ...
kemmenekundi
... is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. After having dinner at Bangalore, one by one, everybody were dropped at their home locations .With a heavy heart, aching limbs and a refreshed mind, I ...
Bangalore parte deux
... India - that we wanted to stay a couple of days there to go on a nice backwaters houseboat tour. We were picked up in Bangalore after a horrible flight via Mumbai, which got us to Bangalore early Monday morning. We planned to check in to the hotel and ...
Vacation Over
Today was the last day of the trip, so we ate breakfast and then left Mysore. We were flying out of Bangalore Airport, which is inconveniently located 40km outside of the city. The drive should only take around 3-4 hours, but with the ...
Bangalore
Enjoyed time relaxing in parks and wondering around the city. We think it will be very nice here in a few years time once all of the developments are finished, but we quite liked ...
Bangalore
... $70 tickets from Chennai to Calcutta. After stopping in a coffee shop for breakfast, we headed to Cubbon Park for a stroll. 'Bangalore's Central Park' is about the same size as the original, but like the botanical gardens it could use a little landscaping ...
Contrasts & Children
In some side streets you see houses and cars, some even covered. Up the street, garbage strewn, and shockingly, lots of plastic. We attended a Pentecostal School that is a mission from Toronto. Great work in giving these poor children ...
Bugsgalore (roachorama)
... sleepstarved passengers would have had a whip round and paid for passage via a toll road instead. Upon arrival in Bangalore we thought we'd do something original: trust the rickshaw driver's commission-laden recommendations and let him tuk tuk us ...
The Big Match and time to get western
Due to the India England game being moved from Kolkata to Bangalore we had to do some rescheduling. Well my travel agent Claire did! This meant we did lose some money on cancellation fees for flight and trains to Kolkata and although our ...
Bangalore Baby!
... volunteering I have been doing. If I finish my task then they said they will show me around HOPE foundations projects here in Bangalore. Tuesday at the office was long, I edited about 500 stories as well as Emailing lots of children’s photos around ...
Changes
... !). I just wasn't really in a beach mood and wanted to go to a city. Luckily we managed to change our tickets to Bangalore. A few hours before our bus journey I changed my mind again, but this time it was too late to change our tickets to Mysore. ...
Fireworks and a train to Bangalore
The Rikshaw Journey: Travelling by rikshaw rarely makes you feel safe. The night Ellie and I left to catch our train to Bangalore was no exception! The rikshaw we luckily hired basically had a hand held torch for a headlight, and no completely no horn. ...
My Bangalore Birthday
... simply wonderful. We walked around the glossy hassle free streets with big cheesy grins on our faces. I don't get stared at in Bangalore, well subtly maybe (and what girl doesn't enjoy that?) but not in that awful stalkery way that it happens everywhere ...
Bangalore
Bangalore - the IT (information technology) capital of India. Big, and busy. Loud. Always noisy, endless noise. The visit to the dentist ended up being a wonderful experience. Easy, painless and so wonderfully inexpensive compared to home. And no more ...
Bangalore to Ooty Via Bandipur & Mudhumalai
... on the jungle roads. Made my mind to go to Ooty via Gudalur route and return via Masinagudi. Started from Whitefield, Bangalore by 8 AM in the morning. Took the Bangalore - Mysore road and stopped near Channapatna for Breakfast in ...
Day tripping Bangalore courtesy of British Airways
... queues and buses I am now installed in a 5* hotel called The Chancery Pavilion (www.chancerypavilion.com) in the centre of Bangalore plus I have an extra day for the sightseeing which I didn't get around to yesterday. I've decided to visit the ...
yea pictures!!!
... even make some friends! since then i have been planning for the next part of my trip and doing a variety of things around bangalore. the highlight included seeing the newest bollywood movie, salaam namaste, on opening day! i felt so..."in"! it was a ...
On the move...
... think it had got quite that bad yet but that I would bare it in mind... We were hoping to do a bit of sightseeing in Bangalore but in the light of our delicate states have opted for booking a hotel room for the day to convalesce before our bus journey ...
Indian Wedding!
... the lines of, "The more the merrier!" So six of us left Mysore on Thursday night, with the hopes of making it to Bangalore in time for a cocktail party that night. Not so unexpectedly though, we didn't make it in time. Instead we just ...
leaving India
... suis partie,en rage alors que le yoga est cense te calmer,c'etait le pire des cours. ca y est je pars dans 2 heures pour bangalore, bangkok et chiang mai car je dois etre la bas au plus vite pour ma formation. Super contente de changer d'air meme si ...
Bangalore - English
... prices in this road, specially because this city is richer than others due foreign investment. Many foreign companies are attracted to Bangalore because this city has lots of computer nerds, therefore is big in IT. I am really surprise with the Indian ...
Silicone Valley of India
... complexes you get swept away by this wind of optimism that blows in every direction. In Bangalore, Hyderabad (aka Cyberabad) and many others, Middle Class India is finally becoming reality. And along with wealth come the luxurious multi story condo ...
Velankanni to Bangalore : A Safe Journey
Some of the roads till sunset.. We were still at some 60KM from Tanjavur when the sun decide to set. Return trip was very smooth, I am not very sure of the minute details of the roads we took. We drove through ...

