Bangalore in 3 days: the IT capital of India at 920m altitude with a year-round 24°C climate, the city that started India's craft beer revolution, where the 240-acre botanical garden was planted in 1760 and the 300-acre Cubbon Park predates the tech boom by a century.
The 1924 benchmark: the fermented rice-lentil idli, the crispy fried vada, the paper-thin masala dosa with spiced potato, sambar broth and two chutneys, and the filter coffee poured high to create froth in the brass davara-tumbler set.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideHyder Ali's 1760 garden: the exposed granite of the Deccan Shield (the oldest visible rock in Bangalore), the Victorian Glass House modeled on Crystal Palace and the largest tropical plant collection in Asia on 240 acres.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe most grandiose state capitol in India: the Karnataka legislature fused Dravidian temple towers with Greco-Roman civic grandeur in granite — deliberately spectacular, and illuminated in full on Sundays and national holidays.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Bangalore brewery that started India's craft beer revolution: 10–12 beers brewed on site including the wheat Weiss, the Stout and the Belgian Tripel. The three-floor pub is always packed on weekends.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe 400-acre palace of the dynasty that ruled Mysore for 600 years: Tudor battlements, Gothic turrets, stained glass and the interior hunting trophies and silk carpets of the last Princely State court.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideRichard Sankey's 1864 colonial park: the red-Gothic High Court of 1884, the Victorian Aquarium, the State Library and the most-used urban green space in South India — entirely surrounded by the 21st-century tech city.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Mangalorean prawn curry in coconut-red-chilli paste, the Tulu Nadu chicken with dried rice wafers that absorb the broth, and the lacy water-only rice crepe (neer dosa) that is the lightest dosa in the South Indian repertoire.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe 7-acre Rajasthani-South Indian temple complex: the Gita Experience interactive museum, the prasadam hall serving free meals from ISKCON farms, and the evening lamp ceremony with 5,000 devotees — the most dramatic public prayer in Bangalore.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Tamil merchant community's 24-spice masala with kalpasi (stone flower lichen — unique to Chettinad, unavailable elsewhere in Indian cooking): the chicken curry made with spices brought back from Southeast Asian trade routes.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Anglo-Indian menu unchanged since 1952: the meeting place of Bangalore's writers, professors and politicians for 80 years. A colonial-era time capsule that has survived the IT boom on the same St. Marks Road.
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