Bangalore Warnings Or Dangers

If you are arriving in Bangalore via train then ensure that you do not get tempted by the various offers for an autorickshaw as soon as you get off the train or once come out of the train station. Most people who solicit could take you to the cleaners.

Go down to the pre-paid autorickshaw stand, get a ticket for the location / hotel that you are going and pay the pre defined fare at the counter. This will ensure that you are not taken to your location via a route where you will have to shell out an outrageous fare.

Well Safety is a issue all over the world isnt it? As far as Bangalore is concerned, its quite a safe city and if possible try to go around with a know local if no choice then just cross your fingers and use some professional services like hotel taxi, etc to rule out any remote chances of dangers.

The city offers a range of places to visit based on what you would like to see... it has huge parks but isnt impressive for a lonely visitors, it has got museums, libraries, pubs, restaurants, malls etc etc

We had a large gap between our connecting flights. We arrived from Bangkok to Bangalore and were waiting for our connecting flight to Goa. You are not allowed in the domestic terminal until hours before your flight, despite how cold you might be. Fortunately members of Kingfisher airline who we were not flying with took pity on us and got us through security 4 hours before our flight. We warned another traveler of this, who did not listen and she had the same problem.

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While the western airlines have stopped serving food on their flights, their Asian counterparts continue to pamper their passengers with food on their flights.
In India,the food varies from INEDIBLE (air India Express, why do they serve that garbage at all?) to delicious ( Paramount Airways ). The service is usually very good, and plenty of food to eat and also lots of water and tea

I noticed someone had written a warning about customs. Having travelled to India since I was 8, I've noticed the key to dealing with customs is to be unwilling to give them any money. Once they know that you are unwilling to bribe them, they ease up. If they give you a hard time on anything, just tell them to write the items on your passport and they can check that you have them when you go back.

Bangalore is full of underemployed autorickshaw drivers.
It is strange but there are two types of them.
The first type will use the meter and you don't even have to struggle too hard for it.
The second type, however, will give you a ridiculously good price provided you accept that he will take you to some emporiums. Don't fall for this. Even if they tell you that you don't have to buy anything. First of all, he will get a commission even if you spend 15 minutes in the emporium without buying anything but he will take you from emporium to emporium until you buy something expensive. And secondly, it is very tiring and disappointing to go from emporium to emporium just to turn down the shop owners' offers all of the time. You can spend your precious time better than that.
If you run into an autorickshaw driver belonging to the second type, get out of his vehicle ASAP and catch a first type rickshaw. You will feel much better and even in the worst case, you don't have to wait more than 10 minutes for an honest driver.

When I left Yangon I had arrived in Bangalore in south India and I never felt I was in India, the commotion and the misery all seemed outside of me, for my heart was firmly back in Myanmar. It felt that I was passing through a scenery in which I was not a part. Bangalore is crowded, dusty and the people especially the younger ones who frequent the central district, noticeably unfriendly. The visual landscape of humanity is somewhat interesting because of the beautiful dark skinned maidens with long flowing black hairs and especially by the abundance of the indo Tibetan speaking peoples of the North East who walk around as if they don’t fit into the place at all. But it is a not a place for a tourist, there are not enough attractions nearby.
The arrival hall of the airport is chaotic, several officials demanding various types of papers, I blissfully ignore them and walk past them to be thrown into the throng of people waiting for the arriving passengers from all parts of the globe, who can be identified by the bulging suitcases ( middle east, goodies for the family ) and the pseudo sophisticates ( the professional who had emigrated to the west, enough money but no style ) and humble parents glad to be back after visiting their off springs in far away lands.
The taxi drivers like everywhere else are out to get you and that they do. Just pay me the meter fare, a cunning bald head said, and when we got into his car we realize, it was not a taxi and had no meter in it and the price was fixed on the spot at an exorbitant rate. By then the luggage was in, the car had left the airport premises and the pain of looking for a proper taxi was not worth it. The baldheaded Tamil speakier can add another foreigner to his Sucker’s List.. Be foreigner and get hit for double….

The last time I visited Bangalore was June-July 2006 and the airport was under construction.I am not sure if the new airport has been opened yet or not and wonder how the things are working on there for the services.The thing I still remember for the Bangalore Airport is such an awful one.The boarding gate for the departure hall is only one and the prority will be British Airways only!!It was a disaster for us on that time whereas other 2flights actually scheduled 2-3hours ahead from British Airways and we have to wait for its boarding.The waiting room at the departure area is really dirty.I wonder why it was qualified for an international airport.While we were boarding in, an airport crew was running and screaming along the line to ask if there was a doctor among passengers because a crew was fainted.OH MY GOD!it means there is no medical service inside the airport!!!