Several people from our Karnataka trip arrived early so Dan (the owner of Toto Tours) organized a pre-tour tour of Bangalore or Bengaluru as it known locally.  Bengaluru is well known as the ‘Silicone Valley of India’ (aka call centre central) or the Garden City and for having really bad traffic (and that is by Indian standards).  We visited the Sri Radha Krishna Temple, Nandi Temple (known as the Bull Temple), Tupu Sultan’s (Bengalaru) Summer Palace and Lal Bagh botanical gardens.

400 Year Old Indian Cotton Tree, Lal Bagh

Summer Palace Detail

Laundry by Sri Radha Krishna Temple

Central Market Traffic

Park Bench, Lal Bagh

Crystal Palace Detail, Lal Bagh

Temple near Summer Palace

Crystal Palace Reproduction in Lal Bagh

How low can you go? Bull Temple

Solid Granite Bull, Bull Temple

The family that bikes together…….

Sausage Fruit, Lal Bagh

Summer Palace, Detail

Central Market

Ragu, our tour guide, looking good in blue; Summer Palace

Lal Bagh

Bangalore Traffic

Sri Radha Krishna Temple

Bird (?Falcon)

Karnataka Parliament