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 flowers by ushar
Sprawling in flowering glory over 240 acres, lal bagh's rare collection of tropical and sub-tropical plants, trees and herbs will have both horticulturists and laymen searching for superlatives to describe it sbudant natural beauty.
This artistically oilandscaped garden have a profusion of flower beds, lotus pools, tinkiling fountains, flowering indian trees,like, Asoka (saraca indica )is one of the most beautiful flowering tree with brick-red flowers, rarer, yellow bloom-bearing variety (saraca declinata), Mangolia, Champac to name a few. Leave a Comment
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Maharajah's Bangalore Palace.
Set amids the greeen exuberance of a sprawling garden is a palace straight out of the pages of british history- or so it seems. Built on the lines of medieval castles in Normandy and England, the bangalore palace is farily close imitation of Windsor Castle. It is, however a recent construction (1887). Made grand by its majestic turrets and ornamental stone work, the Palace boasts of lelegant wood carving in its interiors. Leave a Comment
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 Bugle rock by ushar
This mammoth rock which is very near to Lal Bagh has attracted world-wide geological intrest. It got its name because Kempe Gowda's watchtower, which stands on it, at one time alerted the city to the advent of visitors and intruders, presumably by a warning bugle call. This rock is 3,000 million years old and in geolofical parlance, is lermed 'pennisular gneiss'. Leave a Comment
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 by ChuckG
Go see my Belur page for more details.
Thousand years old temple a few hours from Bangalore. The guide is an old man that has been doing this job for more than 20 years. He's the coolest guide I ever had.
Note: Don't venture in the town outside of the temple...you will get harassed by people who wants to sell you anything Leave a Comment
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 Bull temple (outside view) by ushar
This shrine, a typical Dravidian- style temple us built by Kempe Gowda. It has a mammoth monolithic Bull 4.5 metre high and 6.5 metre long. The nadi bull is revered for being the vahana (vehicle) of Lord shiva. Leave a Comment
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 by bradbeaman
Once you go into the rural areas outside of Bangalore you can see the silk production industry.
The process goes like this: the farmer buys the silk worm eggs from the government that come by the hundreds on one piece of paper. The farmer grows mulberry plants and feeds the worms in the basket. Once the worms reach a certain size they are placed in stands where they spin the cocoons. Then it is full circle back to the market.
If you can go to a place like Dodbalapur where they weave silk into sarees that is very interesting process too.
The Kannada word for silk is Reshme Leave a Comment
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Shravanabelagola in Hassan District is 157 km away from Bangalore is an important Jain centre. There is a pond and two stony hills, called Chandragiri and Indragiri. Chandragiri has the Chandragupta basadi of the Gangas and the Parashwanatha basadi here is the biggest. The town below the hill has the Jaina matha whose walls have very old paintings. Indragiri has the Gommata monolith, 58' tall, installed by a Ganga general and scholar Chavundaraya, and also Siddhara basadi, Odegal basadi, Chennanna basadi and Chauvvisa Tirthankara basadi, and also the finely engraved pillar called Tyagada Brahma Pillar. The floral designs on it are excellent. To the north of town is Jinanathapura which has the Aregal basadi and the Shantinatha basadi of Hoysala times. Shravanabelagola has over 500 inscriptions, and some of them are recording death by starving (`sallekhana') by Jaina ascetics and laymen. Leave a Comment
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Early in twelfth century, the great Srivaishnava saint Sri Ramanujacharya took up his residence and lived here for about 14 years . It thus became a prominent centre of the Srivaishnava sect of Brahmins, who obtained from the Hoysala king Vishnuvardhana, who had become a follower of the Acharya, an assignment of the fertile tracts of land in the neighbourhood, especially of the Ashta Gramas, on either bank of the Cauvery. The temple is beautiful and the climb up offers you a fantastic view of the cauvery valley behind. The prashadham of puliyogare (tamarind rice) is famous and delicious, not to be missed!However steer away from the pesky goats that make a grab for the same!
So many lakes once you take a detour from the Mysore Road towards Melukote, you can literally walk into the lakes. (Chk photos) Leave a Comment
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