India Travel Guide

Janpada loka: sprawling across 15 acres here is a complex devoted to the preservation of folk culture. There is an art.

Mekedatu: (98 km on kanakapura road): mekedatu in kannada means ‘goat’s leap’. It is so called because at this point, the mighty cauvery river squeezes itself through a rocky channel across which a goat could leap. At the confluence of the cauvery and the arkavathi is sangameshwara temple. It is a beautiful picnic spot where one can fish or laze around.

Muthyala paduvu-pearl valley: (45 km on anekhal road): a beautiful picnic spot. A waterfall gushes down 90 metres in a cascade of pearly drops. The shiva temple located nearby is worth a visit.

Dodda alada mara: (28 km on mysore road): also called ramohalli. A banyan tree, 400 years old and spreading over 3 acres, probably the largest in karnataka, is a botanical wonder.

Hessaraghatta: Bangalore (26.5 km from bangalore on tumkur road): here is an artifical lake covering 1,124 acres, and a boat club. The indo-danish dairy project and government horticultural and dairy farms are interesting places to visit.

Nandi hills: (60 km on bellary road): this hill station is a paradise located 4,850 feet above sea level. There is a fairly extensive plateau with gardens, lawns, tourist bungalows and hotels with wind surfing facilities. Accommodation available at hotel mayura pine top (kstdc). For horti¬culture department cottages contact: resident manager, lai bagh.

Nrityagram dance village: hessa-raghatta. (30 km from city) india’s only village for classical dances.

Whitefield:: (16 km on airport road), a Popular retreat for indian and foreign tour-sts who flock to visit the ashram set up by mosopher-educationist, sri satya sai baba.

Bannerghatta: (21 km from bangalore on tekal road): numerous wild animals oam freely in this densely forested hilly area -an ideal picnic spot for wildlife lovers.

The bannerghatta national park has a ion and tiger safari and a crocodile and snake farm. Regular conducted tours are or-;arused by the park authorities in motor vehicles and more interestingly, on elephant back.

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A major industrial and commercial centre, with scientific and research activity. Bangalore is multifaceted: modern marvels, historical monuments, bustling shopping plazas, a race course and golf courses. Called the silicon valley of india for its growing software industry, it is also known as the city of draught beer.

Bangalore is the capital of karnataica which harbours a diversity of attractions such as the ruins of vijaynagar, sculptures of belur and halebid, the mausoleum of gol gumbaz at bijapur, golden sands of karavalli, the proud hills of kodagu, forests of bandipur, nagarhole and bannerghatta, and chikmagalur with its mountains and coffee plantations, majestic mysore and the world’s tallest freestanding monolith of bahubaii at sravanabelagola.