Virgo Dan: Bangalore ~ Bengaluru

One of the places we visited in India was Bangalore a.k.a. Bengaluru. It's well known as a hub - India's IT sector, thus the name "Silicon Valley of India". We arrived a little after midnight in Bangalore without any pre-booking of hotels. We were taken to a hotel known as Dr Raj International. It looked good but they did not have rooms available that night. They recommended another hotel opposite theirs - Suvidh Comforts. The condition of the hotel was alright. Since everyone was extremely exhausted after such a long drive from Ooty to Mysore and finally to Bangalore, we "collapsed" in the comfort of Suvidh. ! Haha....

I woke up quite early and the first thing I did was to get thru' a facebook friend of mine who lives in Bangalore. He is a Chennaite but working in Bangalore. My buddy Jac !

Message for Jac (if you're reading my blog) : Hey ! Jac, how do you do ? Sorry for sending you that text so early in the morning. I guess you were fast asleep and I woke you up ! You know, I'm always "d alarm clock" haha....anyways, it was good talking to you. Take care buddy !"

So, as I was saying about Jac - sadly, did not get to meet my buddy. I did not have the time and we were planning to leave Bangalore asap...as we were only passing thru'. However, I do hope to meet Jac one day :-) Either in Malaysia or in Bengaluru...haha. It was also unfortunate that Jac was not living close by to where I was staying and it being a working day (15/11/2011 @ Tuesday), I guess that even made it impossible to meet. Moreover, this bad me never gave him any notice of my arrival...lol. So, we just had a chat - over the phone.

Coming back to this garden city, I never made it to any of their beautiful gardens or parks but just whisked through the city. Weather was awesome. Felt the cool breeze although it was sunny. But..oh boy ! the traffic in Bangalore is horrendous. We decided to take the auto-rickshaw to do some shopping instead of the 12 seater Tempo Traveller that we were travelling in. We did some quick shopping and left Bangalore just after lunch at Mirchi Durbar - a multi cuisine restaurant. Our next destination was Chennai - back to Chennai which took us close to 8 hours. I'll tell you more about my other destinations in India - in my next entry. Here are some of the pictures taken in Bangalore..:-)

This is Dr Raj International Hotel - the first hotel in Bangalore that we approached but
rooms were unavailable that night.

Ended up at Suvidh Comforts opposite Dr Raj International - behind me
is the Manager of the Hotel.

Suvidh Comforts @ Gandhi Nagar

MTR (Mavali Tiffin Room) - where we had our brekky - it was walking distance
from Suvidh Comforts. Apparently, MTR has always been
one of the city's hottest and favourite eating spots.

Inside MTR - nice and comfortable place and good food too !

The sweet shop inside MTR was awesome !

After brekky at MTR :-)

A townhall in Bangalore in the 30's

Petrol Station

No ! am not as tall at her yet ..lol

Then we went shopping :-)

Mum - making her selections...guess she's already confused...one too many...:-)

Shopping spree ! Hehe...make a wild guess - did I purchase this saree
or not ? The driver behind liked it though :-)

Yay ! I'm as tall as her now..almost !...lol

Poor Brother in Law and Jeevan (my nephew) too tired
to walk any further...lol

Then, it was time for lunch...I was yearning for fast food and was glad to see McD -
unfortunately it was only a billboard and I could not find the McD outlet...
so the hunt for lunch continued....