Bangalore is the place where I was born, brought up and am living. Here is to some interesting places in and around Bangalore.
1. Bannerghatta National Park - Bangalore is one of the few cities, may be, in the world which is just a stone's throw away from mother nature. There is a huge forest area in the belt of Banneraghatta, Kanakapura and Anekal belt. This is just about 40km away from the main city. The farming community around these places face issues many a time because of Elephants wandering into the fields and destroying the crop.
2. Nandi Hills - Nandi Hills, used to be very beautiful, weekend getaway spot and it still can be. There are two ancient temples - Yoga Nandeeshwara and Bhoga Nandeeshwara which only the devotees visit, most of the crowd that comes around to Nandi hills have different ideas. They get drunk, throw plastic bottles and beer bottles all around and make the place messy.
I have my own name for Nandi Hills - Monkey hills. The monkey population is quite high and they are quite unruly. They have no fear and literally scare you. They snatch away anything that they can from you and work in teams.
3. Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple - Right in the heart of the city, to be precise in Hanumanthanagar, very close the the Big Bull Temple, this is a cave temple and dates way back to 9th centutry. Gavi means Cave in Kannada the local language and that is how the name. The surrounding area used to be called as Gavipuram and the old timers still call it by that. On the day of Makara Sankranti/Pongal, there is a special worship. It is also said that the first rays of the sun on that day, fall straight onto the idol.
More to come......
Regards
Srinath
1. Bannerghatta National Park - Bangalore is one of the few cities, may be, in the world which is just a stone's throw away from mother nature. There is a huge forest area in the belt of Banneraghatta, Kanakapura and Anekal belt. This is just about 40km away from the main city. The farming community around these places face issues many a time because of Elephants wandering into the fields and destroying the crop.
2. Nandi Hills - Nandi Hills, used to be very beautiful, weekend getaway spot and it still can be. There are two ancient temples - Yoga Nandeeshwara and Bhoga Nandeeshwara which only the devotees visit, most of the crowd that comes around to Nandi hills have different ideas. They get drunk, throw plastic bottles and beer bottles all around and make the place messy.
I have my own name for Nandi Hills - Monkey hills. The monkey population is quite high and they are quite unruly. They have no fear and literally scare you. They snatch away anything that they can from you and work in teams.
3. Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple - Right in the heart of the city, to be precise in Hanumanthanagar, very close the the Big Bull Temple, this is a cave temple and dates way back to 9th centutry. Gavi means Cave in Kannada the local language and that is how the name. The surrounding area used to be called as Gavipuram and the old timers still call it by that. On the day of Makara Sankranti/Pongal, there is a special worship. It is also said that the first rays of the sun on that day, fall straight onto the idol.
More to come......
Regards
Srinath
Why don't You tell us more about accomodation possibilities in Bangalore ?
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments Jankove. Shall post some details in a few days.
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Srinath