http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , India , Karnataka , Bangalore en-us Thu, 03 Dec 09 18:29:39 +0000 Thu, 03 Dec 09 18:29:39 +0000 Tuesday Dec 1st BangaloreI really canrsquot believe itrsquos December already. I think I havenrsquot ever felt so unchristmassy as I feel right now. But anywayshellip Sunday was very relaxed. I didnrsquot really do anything except for hanging out at the guesthouse garden and talking to this really awesome and interesting woman from Hamburg. She also works as a yoga teacher and gave http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-457777.html So today I got to experience a bit of modern India. Bindu took me shopping around the neighborhood here where she lives. We went to a store that sold Indian crafts. Then we went to a grocery store Food Zone and then we went to the mall. We were going to go to the bookstore so I could pick up a book but we got off on the wrong floor. We just happened to be outside of a salon so on a whim we http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-455580.html Just a quick note. Bindu and I went to a Bollywood movie last night at a mall not far from their house. I guess I've been spending so much time looking at palaces and temples that I totally have been missing modern India. So it was nice to see a mall. Believe it or not they had a BaskinRobbins and a KFC. Along with popcorn at the movie you could get simosas potatosveggiesspices in a doug http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-455195.html I arrive in Bangalore today. Bindu's mother met me at the airport and we came to Bindu's house. It is a lovely house. Sanjay is doing better but is limited in his eating and has lost some weight. I did a load of laundry big relief and have another load to do in the morning.We are going to see a Bollywood movie tonight. I can hardly wait http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-455034.html I come across a lot of people when i'm traveling and for me its really easy to get talking to people and make friends. While talking to people i realized that its really difficult to get to know how to travel cheap in a bunch of places around the world because there isnt a lot of useful cheap information out there because the net is full of stuff put up by travel agents airlines and expensive ho http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-453035.html Wednesday Nov 4thI canrsquot believe Irsquove already been in Bengalore for 2 days Time goes by so fast in a big city like this Telling of what Irsquove 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 yoursquod think you were in India if there werenrsquot so many Indians on the street. It http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-451911.html Tuesday Nov 3rdWhat a night Contrary to my hopes the roads got even worse. I donrsquot think I ever saw potholes that size At least I managed to sleep somewhat. This morning it didnrsquot really get any better. First I couldnrsquot 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 pe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-450438.html Looking for package tours travels in India plan your holidays with this exclusive website with lots of travel tips and information. Visit www.tourindiaguide.com. User ID Inet0438 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-448355.html Looking for package tours travels in IndiaPlan your holidays with this exclusive website with lots of travel tips and information.visit www.tourindiaguide.comUser ID Inet0481CONTACT NO 9019438380 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-443974.html Kerala in South India occupies a narrow strip along the southwest coast. He is known for being the most literate of the country 90. It occupies an area from 38863 km and a population census of 2001 was nearly 32 million people. Thiruvananthapuram Trivandrum is the capital and big city. The official language is Malayalam but there is also a large group of speakers of Tamil. Kerala is bounde http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-441798.html am looking for expat women looking for Bed and breakfast.I have two spare bed rooms centrally located in BSK III stage.Rooms come with all facilities internetTVMicro wavefridgebreakfastdinner.The facility is only for women http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-438514.html 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 w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-438169.html 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 n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-435421.html 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 j http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-435206.html Hey allAs 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 18rsquo 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 tec http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-434862.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-429536.html I have moved into my apartment...got my independence on Indian Independence DayChecked 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 didnrsquot speak English so I called one of my students so translate. She then said that the driver didnrsquot speak Hindi so she was going to get http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-428877.html 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... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-427826.html 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 lastminute 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 cl http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-427680.html NamasteHello from India. Oh my first wee blog never done this before so here goes...My week in Singapore was great fun and it was so nice to be back there after a few years. The weather was amazing and I met some very useful contacts in Raffles. So now onto BangTheDoor I arrived about 3weeks ago now and have been getting used to all the chaoticness smelly noise dusty and fuem filled a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/India/Karnataka/Bangalore/blog-426724.html