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Bangalore, the IT city is the capital of state of Karnataka in India and is considered the fifth biggest metro town after Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. Kannada is the local language but Hindi and English works pretty well. Boasting of moderate weather throughout the year, one can visit and ... Read More
Bangalore, the IT city is the capital of state of Karnataka in India and is considered the fifth biggest metro town after Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. Kannada is the local language but Hindi and English works pretty well. Boasting of moderate weather throughout the year, one can visit and see Bannergheta National Park, Nandi Hills, Lal Bagh Park, Vidhan Soudha, HAL Museum as the local attractions. The famous M.G.Road is a great place to unwind in the evening with pubs and a very active night life. Connected with all the major cities of India, Bangalore is on international aviation map as well and has one of the better international airports of the country. The local traffic though can be a deterrent so local excursions needs to be planned well.
Bangalore has an enviable list of weekend-trips, starting with Royal Mysore, Srirangapatna, Kabini, Bandipur National Park, Mudumalai, Tirupati and the list is endless.
Best time to visit: All year round
Languages spoken: Kannada, Hindi, English
Climate: Moderate climate throughout the year
Places to see: Vidhana Soudha, Vikas Soudha, Seshadari Iyer Memorial
Historical sites: Bengaluru Palace, Tipu Sultan’s Palace
Nature’s bounty: Bannerghatta National park, Nandi Hills
Holy places: ISKCON Temple, Bull Temple, Maha Bodhi Society Temple, Maruthi Mandir, Gavi Gangadeshwara Cave Temple, VenkataramanaSwamy Temple, Dodda Ganapathi, Sri Raja Rajeshwari Temple, Ragi Gudda, DakshinaMukhy Nandeeshwara Temple, Mukti Naga temple, Meenakshi Sundaram Temple, Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Holy Trinity Church, St. Mary’s Basilica
Knowledge centres: Vishweshwaraya Science museum, HAL Museum
By : Karthik 72,384 views Comments : 74 
Summary :
Distance : 340 km (Bangalore to Chennai by road)
Time : anywhere between 4.5 and 5 hr (using the formula time=distance/speed)
Ideal speed : 100-110 (I cud maintain 130 in my Fiesta)
Best time to start : 5.30 AM if possible (latest by ...
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By : Karthik 65,909 views Comments : 50 
Finally, after planning for almost 4 years, we made it to Munnar. One thing that I searched for before this trip was a description about the route (fast and best). Though I found the information in bits and pieces, it was not a holistic one. This is ...
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By : rkambil 28,193 views Comments : 29 
I would like to share with all those who intend to travel by the Delhi Bangalore Rajdhani Express the deplorable state of the coaches and the cavalier attitude of the catering / housekeeping and maintenance staff employed by Airtel.
Date of Journey...
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By : Karthik 24,617 views Comments : 8 
An impromptu decision on the eve of a weekend brought us to this place. At the first mention , one would definitely think that this would be in the similar lines of Ramoji Rao film city (Hyderabad) or the likes of it. Well, Innovative Film city (let ...
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By : sudhir 20,922 views Comments : 30 
A dream fulfilled. This happened to be a return journey having completed the Ashtvinayak trip while driving from Bangalore to Mumbai ( it’s another story) and my family was geared up for it.
We started off from Navi Mumbai at 12 noon and took th...
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By : Rachit 19,524 views Comments : 26 
I went to Vishweshwaraya Museum from my chacha's house. Vishweshwaraya Museum was very far away from his house. I traveled for around one-two hour in the bus. I like traveling in the buses. The bus dropped us on the bus stop and we walked a little t...
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I have always wanted to drive long distances rather than be driven, flown or put on a train. On the two occasions that I visited the USA I drove cross country to my heart's content. But here in India the condition of the Highways was a big p...
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By : Rachit 13,382 views Comments : 16 
I went to Bangalore from Delhi in Jet Airways. The weather was pleasant in Bangalore. We took an AC bus from the airport to N.A.L campus. The bus was clean and comfortable. We reached N.A.L campus at night. The campus was very big. My chacha lived on...
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I have this thing about travelling and long drives. Ever since I can remember, I always wanted to drive... not the sprints...but the marathon! I have been fortunate enough to do this a bit in different places across the world, but never managed a rea...
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By : Karthik 10,699 views Comments : 3 
This is one of those "never-planned-for-this" exploration. Sometimes these unplanned explorations turns out to be the best ones.
Kanva Reservoir is located approx. 60 kms from Bangalore.The Kanva river (a tributary of the Cauvery river) is n...
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A month back, I traveled to Bangalore from Madras by road. I want to tell the readers of this forum my impressions about this road trip which some of you may find it informative and useful.
For those who are unfamiliar, there are 2 roads by which ...
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Me and my kids always gets excited whenever we make plans for Bannerghatta National Park and we have already visited 5 times in last 1 year. Actually this was one of the negotiating attractions for my kids when we are planning to move from Seattle to...
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By : Gita AM 5,501 views Comments : 20 
With a multitude of relatives in Bangalore, I have been there many times over the years, but with so many families to visit, I had never really taken in the sights so to speak. In the past couple of years, business trips to Bangalore were always com...
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I was really not enjoying the weather in Delhi from past few days. The Climate in Delhi from past few days was really distressing. Such hot climate with max of 45 degrees really annoyed me. But to my happiness , last week I received a call from my of...
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By : Rahul 5,014 views Comments : 12 
This is an account from last year when I was still in Bangalore, and those were the days. Our vibrant theatre group, which was always up for doing "cool" things, decided we should go cycling in the moonlight! Cycling trips for groups are arranged to ...
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Hi friends, I just want to share my experience with the Golden Quadrilateral. I left Delhi on 23 October, 2010 with my wife and 7 years old son in Toyota Camry at around 6 AM. Passing through Gurgaon, Manesar, Jaipur Bypass, I took a left turn after ...
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I was restless for quite some time as more than 180 days passed without a single trip in our car. Thanks to Swine Flu because of which we canceled our trip to Pune 3 months back. I was planning for two days trip to Shravanabelagola, Belur & Haleb...
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By : Karthik 3,349 views Comments : 7 
After a lot of contemplation, I finally have posted this. This is not exactly qualify as a travel stuff, but nevertheless its on the travel map.
Bangalore is often referred to as the 'Garden City'. One landmark that stands testimony to this title ...
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In the second week of November 07, Saravanan's work took him to Bangalore and Gayatri (our 5yr old daughter) and I accompanied him there. He was busy all the days at the exhibition while we savored Bangalore. I think it was a great way to celebrate m...
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Bangalore – Mumbai drive Report
I have always boasted that I love driving. This drive was to prove to myself ( at age 59) that I really do. Yes! I do love driving!
Myself and my daughter, Anu, started on 26th April 2005 in our Alto Vxi at 5....
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By : Arun 2,718 views Comments : 10 
My biology text book had a chapter about birds when I was in ninth standard. I vaguely remember Salim Ali being mentioned as the father of Indian ornithology in the text. The chapter went on to give an overview of a variety of habitats like fields, o...
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I was bored of regular day life and thought of drive out on weekend which will not be very far as my kid is small only 1 year old so do not want to take risk of arranging food for him and all locations. I already been to Nandi hills, pearl valley, Ba...
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By : Nisha 2,661 views Comments : 10 
I know I know, I was missing from Ghumakkar for quite sometime but there are always reasons. I was travelling extensively and enjoying it too !
Ghumakkar has become a very big family now and it’s difficult to know or remember all members. But, whe...
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Time: 8th – 15th August 2009
Members: one kid, 2 women, 3 men
Preparations: We planned this trip since may'09, booked tickets, hotels, etc. Chalked out route map using Google Maps, spent lot of R&D to make the list of itineraries. The dep...
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By : Reema 2,490 views Comments : 10 
Its been 6 months since we moved to Bangalore. Visits from in-laws and parents resulted in a lot of sight-seeing in and around Bangalore. It is impossible to cover all the places in one day in Bangalore due to traffic and distance. This post is about...
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Bangalore is an air-conditioned city and I love to walk there. This walking tour that I am posting here is not a tour that I walked once but it is a way of my life there. Let’s begin this walk from Mysore Bank HQ area. I usually stay in a hotel in...
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Not many people know if this market exists but this is a grand flower market. I have been to all continents and many cities of the world but this flower market is special. You will never ever see these many flowers but only here in this market.
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Journey for which we all waited so eagerly who knew that will end as a “Journey to Nowhere”. We all were excited about this trip as we will be on bikes for 4 days, covering 1500kms in monsoon, witnessing the beautiful countryside of North Karnata...
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In August month of 2011, I planned to go to the Forest of Cauvery River with my friend who was working with me. We heard that there are wild elephants in the forest along with other animals. So we were sure that it will be full of adventure and lucki...
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It’s being a long time since I have shared my travel experiences or travelled for a long to discover the hidden world around us.
On 2nd of March one of my friends had planned to visit Gokarna hence I also decided to take off from work and take m...
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By : Reema 1 year, 130 days ago Comments : 10 
Its been 6 months since we moved to Bangalore. Visits from in-laws and parents resulted in a lot of sight-seeing in and around Bangalore. It is impossible to cover all the places in one day in Bangalore due to traffic and distance. This post is about...
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By : hiteshbuch 1 year, 192 days ago Comments : 12 
Having tasted blood once (see my write up “Mumbai to Bangalore and back by car” posted on 04-06-2009) my wife and I were thirsty for more. So more than three years later,we decided to drive down to Bangalore again during Diwali 2011.
But this ...
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By : Naman 1 year, 259 days ago Comments : 16 
Hello People,
This is Naman, back again & this time I'll take you on a journey to Mysore. I along with my family toured Mysore in January'11. I had heard a lot about the city & was really excited to be discovered the charm of this city. My...
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By : skranjan 1 year, 357 days ago Comments : 25 
Hi friends, I just want to share my experience with the Golden Quadrilateral. I left Delhi on 23 October, 2010 with my wife and 7 years old son in Toyota Camry at around 6 AM. Passing through Gurgaon, Manesar, Jaipur Bypass, I took a left turn after ...
Read More
By : jaykakarla 1 year, 360 days ago Comments : 13 
Bangalore – Mumbai drive Report
I have always boasted that I love driving. This drive was to prove to myself ( at age 59) that I really do. Yes! I do love driving!
Myself and my daughter, Anu, started on 26th April 2005 in our Alto Vxi at 5....
Read More
By : Himadri S 2 years, 20 days ago Comments : 7 
Time: 8th – 15th August 2009
Members: one kid, 2 women, 3 men
Preparations: We planned this trip since may'09, booked tickets, hotels, etc. Chalked out route map using Google Maps, spent lot of R&D to make the list of itineraries. The dep...
Read More
This is Vasu and I will like to share my brother's birthday party last weekend at Amoeba in Church Street, near MG Road.
My brother's birthday was a fabulous day in 'Amoeba', the famous bowling alley.I was so excited about the plan that two nights...
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By : Gita AM 2 years, 117 days ago Comments : 20 
With a multitude of relatives in Bangalore, I have been there many times over the years, but with so many families to visit, I had never really taken in the sights so to speak. In the past couple of years, business trips to Bangalore were always com...
Read More
By : Nisha 2 years, 135 days ago Comments : 10 
I know I know, I was missing from Ghumakkar for quite sometime but there are always reasons. I was travelling extensively and enjoying it too !
Ghumakkar has become a very big family now and it’s difficult to know or remember all members. But, whe...
Read More
By : vivek.0485 2 years, 311 days ago Comments : 1 Commnent
Banglore ,City full of Serviceclass.After 5 days of work everyone wanted to get relax.Banglore and places near to the city provides amid opportunities to all of them.
Last weekend we planned to travel to "HOGENAKKAL FALLS".Somewhere around 160 km...
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By : prhebbare 2 years, 316 days ago Comments : 5 
I was restless for quite some time as more than 180 days passed without a single trip in our car. Thanks to Swine Flu because of which we canceled our trip to Pune 3 months back. I was planning for two days trip to Shravanabelagola, Belur & Haleb...
Read More
By : easyrider 3 years, 2 days ago Comments : 11 
A month back, I traveled to Bangalore from Madras by road. I want to tell the readers of this forum my impressions about this road trip which some of you may find it informative and useful.
For those who are unfamiliar, there are 2 roads by which ...
Read More
I was really not enjoying the weather in Delhi from past few days. The Climate in Delhi from past few days was really distressing. Such hot climate with max of 45 degrees really annoyed me. But to my happiness , last week I received a call from my of...
Read More
By : Karthik 3 years, 129 days ago Comments : 7 
After a lot of contemplation, I finally have posted this. This is not exactly qualify as a travel stuff, but nevertheless its on the travel map.
Bangalore is often referred to as the 'Garden City'. One landmark that stands testimony to this title ...
Read More
By : Rachit 3 years, 150 days ago Comments : 26 
I went to Vishweshwaraya Museum from my chacha's house. Vishweshwaraya Museum was very far away from his house. I traveled for around one-two hour in the bus. I like traveling in the buses. The bus dropped us on the bus stop and we walked a little t...
Read More
By : Arun 3 years, 233 days ago Comments : 10 
My biology text book had a chapter about birds when I was in ninth standard. I vaguely remember Salim Ali being mentioned as the father of Indian ornithology in the text. The chapter went on to give an overview of a variety of habitats like fields, o...
Read More
By : Rachit 3 years, 309 days ago Comments : 16 
I went to Bangalore from Delhi in Jet Airways. The weather was pleasant in Bangalore. We took an AC bus from the airport to N.A.L campus. The bus was clean and comfortable. We reached N.A.L campus at night. The campus was very big. My chacha lived on...
Read More
By : hiteshbuch 4 years, 15 days ago Comments : 30 
I have always wanted to drive long distances rather than be driven, flown or put on a train. On the two occasions that I visited the USA I drove cross country to my heart's content. But here in India the condition of the Highways was a big p...
Read More
By : Karthik 4 years, 135 days ago Comments : 3 
This is one of those "never-planned-for-this" exploration. Sometimes these unplanned explorations turns out to be the best ones.
Kanva Reservoir is located approx. 60 kms from Bangalore.The Kanva river (a tributary of the Cauvery river) is n...
Read More
I was bored of regular day life and thought of drive out on weekend which will not be very far as my kid is small only 1 year old so do not want to take risk of arranging food for him and all locations. I already been to Nandi hills, pearl valley, Ba...
Read More
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