Travel Day 933 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA While I had initially gone to Bangalore to see my Tabla teacher and to listen to some classical Indian music, in the end I also got to enjoy something else: a lot of really good home-made food… : ) I actually had to say that I felt a […]
Tabla Concerts in Bangalore
Travel Day 932 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA While my walk around MG Road and UB City Mall yesterday had not felt like actually being in India, at least one other aspect of Bangalore felt like India, the classical Indian music… From Kochi I had really only come north to Bangalore to see my Tabla teacher […]
Is this New York City or India?
Travel Day 931 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA When I was walking around to find the British colonial architecture yesterday, I couldn’t help but finding something else as in Bangalore: extremely modern architecture… When I crossed Cubbon Park towards the east side to walk along MG road, I first reached an area that seemed to want […]
British Colonial Bangalore
Travel Day 930 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA After seeing some of the historical sites in Bangalore yesterday, today I focused more on seeing buildings form the British colonial area… The British had initially arrived in Bangalore in 1809 and by 1831 they made the city their administrative base for the region. Obviously along with the […]
Historical Sites of Bangalore
Travel Day 929 – Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA My 12 hour overnight train ride had been pretty uneventful and after some decent sleep I arrived in Bangalore in the morning… Luckily this time around the train had arrived to a decent hour as well and Bangalore had been the last stop, so everything was pretty smooth […]