Bangalore

India's 'garden city', Bangalore is a peasant metropolis with extensive parks and gardens. Its avenues lined with flowering cassing, gulmohar and jacaranda, stately buildings and gracious people, contribute to its old world charm. Despite its laid-back atmosphere, Bangalore is a major industrial and commercial centres well known for its scientific and research institutions.

As capital of the state of Karnataka. Bangalore is a delightful mix of the traditional and modern. It has skills and sandalwood, golf courses and pubs, bustling shopping areas and serene lakes and parks. It is also an ideal base for a trip around the fascinating state of Karnataka.

Bangalore is famous as the city of gardens. It is one of the most attractive cities in India with its beautiful parks avenues and impressive buildings. Its pleasant climate and laid back charm attracted many senior citizens and thus later on came to be called at "the retired man's paradise".

Bangalore is renowned as much for its industrial plants as for its silk saris, and for the sprawling Cubbon Park which lies at the heart of the city, as also its prestigious race course.

An air-conditioned city, a garden city, the Silicon Valley of India, the fastest developing city in the world, these are some of the attributes used to describe this beautiful city which has a lot to offer you.

A dynamic Happening city, with innumerable cultural events organized every evening, it offers a lot to chose from ; a Hindustan vocal concert, of a Carnatic Veena recital, or fusion music to pure western classical music, a play, or an exhibition of a famous painter.

It ranks as one of the fastest growing cities in Asia. Its pleasant climate, friendly people, and its highly educated population have made this the Silicon Valley of India with almost all Computer related multinationals setting up their India head office at Bangalore. Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister termed this as "India's city of the future"

Its growing software industry, with the multinational Computer companies setting up their offices here and its the rich technical expertise found in the city gave it gives it the reputation of being the 'Silicon Valley' of India.

Places of Interest

1. Vidhan Soudha or the State Secretariat

Cubbon Park

Government Museum

Visvesvaraya Technological Museum

Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens

Tipu Sultan's Fort

Temple dedicated to Nandi the Bull

Venkataramanaswamy Temple

Gavi Gangadhareswara Cave Temple

Ulsoor Lake