Bangalore Favorites

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Favorite thing: Hi ,

Welcome to Bangalore!!!!! Silicon City of India. It is happening place you will like it. Bangalore is safe and sound just like as another cosmopolitan city. Good thing it's weather , it very cool. But trefic is not that great. Further to explore there are lots of things within the City and near around City. I am born traveler :) I love to explore much more around the city while drive , you can have beautiful waterfall in 5 hours drive (Hognekkal), Historical Place I like , i am sure you will amazed to see is Maysore Palace , 3-4 drive from Bangalore. Wild Life century Mudumalai and Bandipure , twice I have already visited going for drive 3rd time coming Weekend on 24th May, you just missed it :) , never mind let me know when you are here I can guide you.
Yarcard around 7 hour distance good hill station for over night stay. Gokarna is amazing beach just 7 hours drive typically for backpacking, i love to drive that stretch. You can touch Goa also from there just in 5 hours.
You can explore more on this site
http://www.karnatakatourism.com/index.asp
what more? within city there are good pubs, restorents, Malls you can check at
http://www.bangalorebest.com/Winedine/winedine.asp
About the city you can check at
http://www.karnataka.com/tourism/bangalore/
You can use auto rick with city for commutation, be careful while checking the meter and paying. In the night be sure where are you going. when you land buy Reliance Cell phone is good not fancy but give good coverage is even while you roam in remote areas or buy a sim card and a cell phone to keep you connected.
Bye the time you land , new airport will be in operation so much know which area you are going to stay and which route you need to take so you can catch right bus. have you fixed where are you going to Stay?
What more feel free to write me email, if you need more info.
Regards / Raj / rajsriv@yahoo.com

Favorite thing: Well, we are now back from our holiday and spent just over a day in Bangalore in mid-March but found the experience totally unrestful and stressful.
We flew with Deccan (cheap, efficient and to be recommended) on the only flight, leaving Kochi just after 7am, arriving at Bangalore at 8am. As the only onward flights to Goa (ours with Kingfisher - cheap, efficient, with a tasty curry meal and to be recommended) were around 4pm we decided to spend the night in Bangalore to check the city out. (My grandfather was stationed there in 1898, just before being posted to South Africa and the Boer War.)
From our short time there I personally wouldn't recommend Bangalore as a place to visit unless you had business there that demanded your presence. It was extremely busy with traffic, very smelly from the exhaust fumes and on our perambulations on foot we never found any of the shops marked on our map. We found only one bar (for which we had read the city was noted) and that was closed for a private party!! Everywhere seemed to be being pulled down/rebuilt/developed (slight over-exaggeration).
Seeking rest elsewhere we repaired to the big park in the middle of the city but were besieged by beggarwomen with babies. The park itself was really just an unkempt open space with trees surrounded by busy roads and with a road running through it but it did provide some respite.
We stayed at an excellent hotel, the St Mark's Hotel, the room rate being 6100 rupees per night and I can recommend it.
In retrospect, we may have got more out of our stay with less stress if we had taken a tour of the city by car/taxi/tuc-tuc, but we prefer to walk as much as possible. We did, in fact, have a mini-tour of the city by taxi on the way back to the Airport when the taxi driver provided by the hotel offered us a tour at no extra cost!!! Having ample time in hand we were transported via the Court House and Government Buildings to (?a relative's?) jewellery shop!! We nearly ended up missing our flight, not helped by the arrival by air of a Politician and the consequent closing of the road to the airport!!
Certainly our short stay was a big disappointment but not enough to spoil our overall holiday.

Favorite thing: We needed to get money out as we had no Rupees with us. The rate offered by the money exchange was not worth it. The ATM inside international arrivals does not accept foreign cards.

But if you walk out and go past domestic departure's there is an ATM that takes visa.

Favorite thing: 1.Bangalore has the impeccable record of highest growth within a span
of 20 Years

2.Bangalore has highest number of pubs in Asia.

3.Bangalore has highest number of cigarette smokers in India.

4.Bangalore has the highest number of software companies in India
-212, followed by Hyderabad - 108, Pune - 97. Hence called the Silicon
Valley of India

5.Bangalore has 21 engineering colleges, which is highest in the world
in a given city. Bangalore University has 57
Engineering colleges affiliated to it, which is highest in the world.

6.Bangalore is the only city in the world to have commercial and
defence Airport operating from the same strip.

7.Bangalore has highest number of public sectors and government
Organizations in India.

8.Bangalore university has highest number of students going abroad for
higher studies taking the first place from IIT-Kanpur.

9.Bangalore has only 48% of local population( i.e.Kannadigas).Hence a
true cosmopolitan with around 25% Tamilians,14%Telugites, 10%
Keralites, 8% Europeans, 6% a mixture of all races.

10.Bangalore police has the reputation of being second best in India
after Delhi.

11.Bangalore has the highest density of traffic in india.

12.Bangalore has the highest number of 2-wheelers in the world.

Fondest memory: 13.Bangalore is considered the fashion capital of east comparable to
Paris

15.Bangalore has produced the maximum international sportsmen in India
for all sports ahead of even Mumbai & Delhi.

16.Bangalore has produced the maximum number of scientists considered
for Nobel Prize nominations.

17.Bangalore has produced the highest number of professionals in USA
almost 60% of the Indian population abroad is from Bangalore (except
Gulf).

18.Bangalore is famous for THREE: Software Professionals, Girls and
Dogs. This one is Ultimate.

19.Bangalore is famous for its dog bites, an average of 12 people in
every single min...sumwhere!

Favorite thing: I was visiting the Bannerghatta National Park, located about 20km from the heart of the city, after over 12 years. From my earlier experience, I didn't expect much and the visit was meant to be a familiarisation for my 3 year old son with some of the other creatures we share the planet with. Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised by the general condition of the animals, especially on the lion & tiger safari. With a fairly good representation of animals, the zoo is quite an interesting walk-about too. The disappointing aspect was only the aquarium, which seemed more like a temporary setup.

The Park offers a decent getaway for about 3-4 hours from the city's bustle. While the cleanliness and general upkeep of the zoo and the safari area were fair, one big disappointment was a lack of food options. In addition to numerous stalls selling chips and soft drinks, there exists only one 'restaurant', if one can call it that, which is run by the state Govt. The food was far from palatable and one had to put up with being surrounded by stray dogs.

Fondest memory: The safari, though of no comparison to the ones you would come across in a real wildlife sanctuary, was quite well stimulated. With tigers in good number, my son and other children in the bus (yes, you are sheperded in a bus!) had an enjoyable time.

Favorite thing: Summer starts from late Feb-the sun can be scorching in April-May
So, do not forget to carry your caps, hats, sun-shades!!!
sun-glasses and sun screens when you are out walking.

Summer fruits are in plenty and taste sweet.
Evenings are pleasant

Favorite thing: I'd heard that Bangkok was a great place to get cheap, good quality dental work done.
I've found the same in Bangalore at Dental Lavelle. www.dentallavelle.com

This place is very professional, clean, etc.