Bengaluru
Hidden gems in bangalore
Malleswaram 8th Cross MarketOld Bengaluru at street level: flowers from five in the morning and no tourist gloss at all
Select Book ShopEighty years of rare books in a house off Brigade Road that almost nobody noticesDetails →
Devanahalli FortA living fort minutes from the airport terminal: the best possible use of a long layoverDetails →
Kaikondrahalli LakeA dead lake the neighbourhood brought back: the most hopeful hour of walking in the cityDetails →
Janapada Loka Folk MuseumVillage Karnataka gathered into one shaded campus: puppets, masks and temple chariots
NIMHANS Brain MuseumA medical teaching collection open to the public, carefully explained; two days a week onlyDetails →
Dodda Alada Mara (Big Banyan Tree)A single tree the size of a small forest, four hundred years and a thousand roots in the makingDetails →
Nageshvara Temple, BegurThe stone on which the name Bengaluru was written down for the first time, 1,100 years agoDetails →
Bugle Rock ParkThree-billion-year-old rock, standing where the city's original boundary tower once wasDetails →
Lalbagh RockA national geological monument, 2.5 to 3.4 billion years old

Mee KhaasaAn artist's house where sattvic cooking is the point, not the label
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