Bangalore Warnings Or Dangers

Bangalore International Airport is still under construction and will be done within 2008 so prepare yourself for an awful arrival area.You have to fill the embarcation card and be on the line at the immigration section.Such a dirty stands to write on!!After that just follow the direction to collect your baggage.From there your baggage will be scanned by the customs officers.Watch out with them!!!It seems to me they are intimidating the women travellers and foreigners.They are really rude and can not speak English mostly.I dont know if it is really the way for them to speak in a loud voice and unsmiling face.I believe they could take some of your baggages if they want to.Be rude too and yell at them when they do that.It works.:-))I observed their attitude to other passengers, it is all the same.It is really crowded there.It will be small space around custom area, crowded with the seats and people so just be careful with your belongings.You can see money exchange service just beside the custom scanning area will be opened 24hours.For your own safety, riding with the prepaid taxi will be better though it is more expensive from the airport.It will be on your left side after the customs area.You can see the sign there.

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My hair was so unruly that I made the mistake with the false hope of some result. At a salon called Mystic Macho I surrendered my hair which has been cut by very few people in the last ten years ( mario luis in baracoa, idalma in buenos aires, twice in Rangoon). First of all their broken English and my interpreters broken Canarese made communications difficult but later on it came to pass that the interpreter and the hair cutter were both from Kerala!
When I arrived in Paris a day later, every one remarked at the horrible hair cut and they made me promise that apart from Mario Luis and Idalma, I will get my hair cut only in Paris, by a stylist from Israel they are all satisfied with...

WOG western on the outside, Oriental on the inside Guys and Gals

Very pretentious, speaking in a tongue which has no resemblance to english, this nerd crowd ,many of them in the IT field, altogether a boring lot. but boy are they interested in meeting foreigners!!! especially if they are attractive women!!

I found the young people of the city I met to be rather boring and shallow, very interested in the material world ( which the spirituality seeking western visitor to India is trying to eschew ).. reminded me of a line from a poem from an american poet.. can a xerox copy of something undesirable be good?

Avoid these pretentious types hanging around MG Road and at the Cafes with their artificial smiles and loud voices speaking a language vaguely resembling English

It can be quite a challenge to cross the streets in Bangalore, except in main areas where the traffic lights and pedestrian crossings are. The cars will not stop at you if they see you attempt to cross the street. One must take small steps and walk straight and let the motorcycles and auto rickshaws worry about you. One must pray hard! Haha!

Since the city is busy and crowded, we sat down in one of the parks to relax and escape the traffic and beggars. There seemed to be a lot of men hanging around (pretty normal all over the city) and we didn't think too much about it. Except that one of these men kept walking around me and my female travel companion, staring. Granted two blond women is fairly unusual in India, but he overstepped his bounds. He exposed himself to us!

... If you insist to go on meter for your ride, those clever autodrivers will bring you for a joyride around town before you reach your destination... the fare, of course, again will be easily 50% more than normal ... well... What you should do is to negotiate a flat rate for the ride.. Assuming that you know roughly (find out from locals) how much it'll cost to go from point A to point B... just top up 10 - 20 rupees, your autodriver will be more than happy . And do not be alarmed that he suddenly know how to use the shortest route, you will experience new scenes cutting through alleys and byways plus you save plenty of time too!! Do this.. save yourself from being cuckooded!!

also lovingly called Autos by Bangaloreans. If you don't look anything like the locals, chances are you will be taken for a ride by the autodrivers. On my first day there, wanting to go to a shopping mall from MG Road which is 5 mins away... our autodriver, instead of bringing us to our destination, instructed us that we MUST visit a souvenir center for his sake .. becoz every tourist he brings to the center will entitle him to a small gift - for his children. Feeling sympathetical, we agreed to "browse" 5 mins at the center. But still, after that he insisted that there is another MUST visit souvenir center. Again we did our mandatory '5min browse through'. We wasted 20 mins becoz our dear autodriver has his own agenda to fulfil, at our expense!! ... Also the autodrivers will rack up high rupees when you look foreign... you have to get used to paying 50% more than locals .. you have no choice... buses are unrealiable and taxis are scarce...

Bangalore is a cool rainy area. Mosquitoes are really big but it is NOT a malaria-zone.
If you're allergic to mosquitoes, use anti-repellent or body cream.
I was overwhelmed by the number of mosquitoes when first I arrived at the airport. Just be prepared, but nothing to worry.