BANGALORE CITY GUIDE

BANGALORE CITY GUIDE

In this world very hardly any city has the strength to pull and neither the inspiration for a for a tourist who move into the city as a tourist place but have the heart of staying back into the city permanently and subsequently earning a living out there hence with such rarity of the city of Bangalore makes it a special city of Karnataka and the inhabitants feel proud to call themselves Banglorians. Bangalore is a very unruffled place on earth and it is the State capital of Karnataka and it holds as a major state of the Southern part of the country. Bangalore has a very unique and one of its kind type of a weather and people love referring this city as the air conditioned city with its pleasant weather all though the year makes the abode of many NRIs and also to the citizens of the country. Bangalore is nick named as the Pensioners Paradise and with the cosmopolitan culture and multi lingual nature makes the city all the more welcoming to tourists and marks a way of hospitability of the city. Bangalore was just another city in India but over the decades has found its place and special mention on the map of the world because of dissemination of the software industry and along with its professionals which has spread to the world across. Bangalore is an important place to visit in the itinerary of those making a visit in India. Bangalore is at times referred to as the Silicon Valley of India because of the booming IT industry in the heart of the city of Bangalore.

Bangalore has evolved as the city to be the spine of the Karnataka industry with the occurrence of the state owned enterprises. The IT city has an electronic city in Bommasandra and the It Park has software enterprises which grew on the not so urban Bangalore city. Huge number of multinational companies is coming into this city with enormous investment funds because they know the IT prospects and the boom in this sector in this city. Bangalore is the fastest growing city in India among ten other cities of the country. It has many a project in the industrial and Information technology sector and has developed and earned its own special place in the world economy and since it has the highest number of IT companies in India which is followed by Hyderabad and has the highest number of Government enterprises in the country.

Bangalore has astonishing marvels which is worth appreciating. It is the only city in India that has both the defence and the passenger and cargo freight airlines plying from the same air strip. Bangalore was the first city of India that had made electricity and was the first to have electricity supplied to the entire city when the rest of the country was still looming under darkness. It is the most sanitised city with all proper health and hygiene conditions kept in mind by the civic authorities. The richest people of the country live in Bangalore hence giving away to the line of poverty as compared to many cities of the world. The Botanical Garden named as the Lalbagh is recognised as having the most varied human made assortment of flora. It has produced the maximum number of scientists who are eligible for the being nominated for the Nobel Prize and in USA it has 60% of the Indian population only from the city of Bangalore. It is compared with Paris in terms of fashion and style statements with densest traffic in the country and it can only survive because it has the most efficient police force and the second best police after the New Delhi Police. The city has progressed and its growth is appreciable in the last two decades having 41% of the entire population of Kannadigas only and hence it is the most cosmopolitan city of India.

Bangalore has the most pleasant type of climate which cannot be found elsewhere in the country April being the warmest month with  temperature just above 30 degrees Celsius and January being the winter month with a bearable chill of just 15 degrees Celsius. Rains are more often and July to September marks the monsoon for the city. Throughout the year it’s a very refreshing type of weather and is the coolest city of the country.

Bangalore has a total land area of 468 square kilometres with a population of approximate 6.5 million and is 3000 feet above sea level. Auto Rickshaws are the most popular mode of transport along with buses frequenting the entire city. A literacy rate of above 89% is something remarkable to achieve and no wonder the reasons to produce so many scientists. The international airport is situated at Devanahalli and around 420 flights operate in a week in Bangalore. The city can also be reached by the network of Indian railways and has two major railway junctions the Bangalore city and the cantonment. A well-networked and maintained bus stand along with the on time bus services makes Bangalore bus service the best way to explore the city with the state aided bus services along with the private buses.

There are a number of places to visit in and around Bangalore and among them Tipu Sultan’s summer place is a must visit for its intricate architecture and the royal construction to make it the most comfortable place for a Sultan to stay. Vidhan and Vikas Soudha are yet another attraction of the city, Lal Baugh, Cubbon park, Bangalore Palace and Attara kacheri few other places of interest along with Karnataka folk museum, Government museum and the Gandhi Bhavan holds the importance of the city’s glorious past. Ulsoor Lake, Yediyur and Sankey tank are the three major water bodies that serves the purpose of water supply to the city along with its adjoining border cities as well. Cariappa Memorial park has a lush green forest cover giving rise and time for the development of the flora and fauna. Bull Temple at Basavangudi, the Banashankari temple, Dodda Ganesh Temple, Shiv murti on the airport road , Kadu Mallikarjunaswamy temple, Gavi Gangadareshwara temple, Dharmaya mandir , Prasanna Veeranjenaya temple , The ISKON temple, Sugreeva Venkateshwara temple , Kanakaparameshwari temple , Venketaramanswamy temple ,Sikh Gurudwara,Jumma masjid , Tawakkal mastan and the St. Patricks Church are few of the most important places of religious interest in the city of Bangalore.

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