The Parms and I arrived in Bangalore at 1:30 AM on Saturday, and have since pretty much recovered from the jetlag. Our hotel is the Fortune Select Trinity in Whitefield, about 30 minutes from the city center on a good day and over an hour during rush-hour (which lasts most of the day). On the plus side, the drive to the Accenture campus is about 5 minutes.
Over the weekend we checked out the Bangalore Palace. The palace is beautiful if not a bit quirky. We saw elephant heads and stools made from elephant feet. We also saw a very old wooden refrigerator, cooled only by ice. There were also a bunch of paintings of naked ladies on the walls, Chinese furniture, and a Spanish mosaic bench.
The bench
The crew
On Sunday we took a walking tour of Lalbagh Garden through BanagaloreWALKS. Our tour guide Vijay took us on a 3 hour tour of the plant life in the garden. The tour included a lunch at MTR, an ‘institution’ in Bangalore that’s been around for over 70 years.
MTR blue grape drink
Dosa Masala!
We stood on a 3 billion year old rock in the gardens, one of the oldest exposed geological features on earth.
Stroll up a 3 billion year old rock
At the top
More pictures to follow.
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