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By purplekitty83
November 9th 2009
Bangalore Vol II Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
Wednesday, Nov 4th I can’t believe I’ve already been in Bengalore for 2 days! Time goes by so fast in a big city like this! Telling of what I’ve seen so far I really like it here. The city is superbusy, loud and polluted, but still has its very own charm. At some places there is now way you’d think you were in India, if there weren’t so many Indians on the street. It could as well be any other big city in the world. Ok, maybe I’m just very spoiled, cause I’m being shown around by a local ☺ Thank [View Full Entry]

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random guys at the botanical gardens
masala dosa
leela, adrian & me

By purplekitty83
November 3rd 2009
Bengalore Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
Tuesday, Nov 3rd What a night! Contrary to my hopes, the roads got even worse. I don’t think I ever saw potholes that size! At least I managed to sleep somewhat. This morning it didn’t really get any better. First I couldn’t find my contacts, so I was pretty blind to start with, second I was pretty disorientated and had o idea where I was going. Then I happened to run only into people, that didn’t speak English, including my Rickshaw driver. He must’ve sensed my confusion, took his chance and drove me circles around the city without really going where [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 3rd 2009 | 131 Views | [diary=450438]

Ellie Blessing
sunset
Cocktail on the 13th floor

A short one. We left after breakfast and found a bus to Mysore. It was nice to ride through the tropical forest some more and we saw more stopped dear near another one of the wildlife parks. Crossing over the border to Karnataka, the roads took a drastic change for the worse. The tarmac became a mud track covered with huge potholes and filled with water from the previous night. The progress was slow and bumpy beyond belief. We spent an uncomfortable hour of this torment and could swear that the bus came close to tipping sideways once or twice due [View Full Entry]

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By Steve Truman
September 10th 2009
City of boiled beans Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
The city previously known as Bangalore has now been restored to its original Kannada name of Bengaluru. Unfortunately, this name cannot easily be abbreviated as copyright on Bengal has already been taken. The city's name, is said to have arisen when Veera Ballala II, a local king during the twelth century, was lost and had a dinner of boiled beans cooked for him by a peasant woman. He therefore named the area where she lived as the Place of Boiiled Beans and that's how it's been known ever since. The problem is that this can't actully be true because the place [View Full Entry]

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By Steve Truman
September 9th 2009
The Road to Bangalore Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
My car turned up at the hotel at 9.30 sharp and we set off to Bangalore, by way of Kanchipuram (or Kanchi, as the locals rather predictably call it). Thinking about it, maybe it's not really an abbreviation. Perhaps it's just like calling London Town, London. "Puram" just means a small town, after all. As we drove through and out of Mamallapuram I saw more temples on both sides of the road. I justconcentrated on the main sights but to really see most of what the town has to offer, you'd have to stay for more than a week. There was [View Full Entry]

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By sonianicolson
September 8th 2009
Yah Yah tell me! Asia » India » Karnataka » Bangalore
Hey all As they tend to say over here...Yah Yah tell me! So... I am getting a bit more settled into life here in Bangalore. There weather is getting wetter and a wee bit colder but still a low of 18’ so not really cold. Work is going well and my students only have another 3weeks before the end of the term. They have been model making, designing, sketching and learning different drawing techniques, you can guess more from the pics! I have been working on more of the marketing front and have been planning events and assisting with school presentations. [View Full Entry]

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An Indian School
An Indian School
Swimming pool

and here come the rest of the pictures...of the temples we visited in Belur and Halebidu, as well as our time in Pondicherry and around Bangalore. yay!! =) [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 19th 2009 | 151 Views | [diary=429536]

temple
here begin the carvings...
the entranceway

I have moved into my apartment...got my independence on Indian Independence Day! Checked out of hotel on Friday, had a driver for the day so headed off to electrical shops. Thought this would have been pretty straight forward but nope! The driver didn’t speak English, so I called one of my students so translate. She then said that the driver didn’t speak Hindi so she was going to get her husband to call. He then called and spoke to the driver in the local language f Kannada and we were off! Found some electrical shops, then ended up at a mall [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 17th 2009 | 144 Views | [diary=428877]

Crazy deposit!!
View from balcony
View from balcony

pictures from my time in the south..this is only part 1 though, covering my arrival in Bangalore, a journey to the zoo with some friends, the trip out to the village we visited, the trip to Nandi Hills, and then also the Golden Temple in Kushalnagar.. stay tuned for the next round, coming soon... =) [View Full Entry]

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Published: August 18th 2009 | 134 Views | [diary=427826]

hello India
and the little boys tried, haha
Michael and Bonnie napping

After the weekend in Pondicherry began our last week of school. A large part of it we just spent going to class and preparing for the final exams we would have, but we still tried to get as much done in Bangalore as we could before leaving. we shopped for last-minute items during the days, ate as much indian food as we could in the evenings, and then went out every single night to a different club to dance the night away. it was a lot of fun, despite the knowledge that we would soon be split up...it was a reality [View Full Entry]

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