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Weekend
Trips/Excursion
There are a
number of places of tourist attraction near Bangalore. These
places around Bangalore make excellent weekend trips and
excursion options from Bangalore. Thirty kilometers from
Bangalore is the Nrityagram village, housing a classical
dance academy.
Bannerghatta National Park, 21 km from the city, is an
important place to visit.
Sixty kilometers from Bangalore is the Nandi Hill Resort,
which is also famous for its temples and fort.
Devarayandurga, 70 km from Bangalore, is famous for its
hilltop shrines.
The craggy rock formation around Bangalore offers adventure
activities like trekking and rock climbing to the adventure
seeker. Devarayandurga (70 km), and Ramanagaram (49 km) are
important spots for adventure.
Bangalore has a number of cultural centers near it, which
offer to the tourist a number of traditional craft items.
Ramanagaram is a silk cocoon-marketing center.Janapada Lok
(near Ramanagaram) and Channapatna (60 km southeast of
Bangalore) are famous craft centers.
The Doda Alada Mara, a 400-year-old banyan tree lying 28 km
from the city, is an idyllic place for picnics.
Mekedatu, 98 km south of Bangalore, and Muthyalamaduvu, 40
km from Bangalore (also known as the Pearl Valley), are
other important picnic spots.
The historic city of Mysore is 139 km from Bangalore and
offers to the traveler a number of monuments belonging to
Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan, the erstwhile rulers of the
place. It also has a number of ancient Hindu temples and a
few monuments built by the British.
Whitefield Ashram, the summer abode of the Shri Sathya Sai
Baba, 20 km east of Bangalore, and the ISKCON (International
Society for Krishna Consciousness) Temple Complex are
important spiritual centers, worth paying a visit.
Events and Festival
The Karaga Festival that falls in the month March/April is
celebrated with great pomp and show, at the Dharmaraya
Temple. The Karaga, an earthen pot that stands for the
goddess Shakti, is taken out in a procession at night. The
pot is immersed in the Sampangi Tank, which is 20 km from
the city of Bangalore.
Reaching Bangalore
Bangalore is
accessible by air, road, and rail. Bangalore Airport is 13
km east of the City Station. There are number of daily
flights to important cities like Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi,
Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Goa, Kochi, Mangalore, Pune
and Thiruvananthapuram. Bangalore has direct international
flights to Muscat, Sharjah and Singapore. It is also a
stopover for many international flights.
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Bangalore has a large bus terminus, which is near the
railway station. The Karnataka State Road Transport
Corporation (KSRTC) buses and buses belonging to Tamilnadu
and Goa Roadways also operate from here. It is well linked
to Mysore (3 hours), Hospet (9 hours), Chennai (8 hours) and
Mumbai (24 hours). The KSRTC conducts a number of tours and
excursions around the city.
There are two railway stations in Bangalore. The main
station is well connected to all major Indian cities. There
are number of daily express trains from Bangalore to other
cities of India. |