Things to do in Bengaluru (Bangalore)

[PaulyB]

After a disastrous transit experience in Bengaluru a couple of years ago (it's a long story), my wife and I are booking a stay for a few days to hopefully erase the experience and visit a completely uncharted territory.

We are doing the normal YouTube explore of things to do but I would also love to hear of your experiences and suggestions. The trip will be late April or early May next year and we think we will need to simply do tours as we just don't know anything of the area.

She is 85 but quite fit - within reason - so the temp should be OK as long as we can balance aircon with real life weather!

Any useful tips and experiences from personal experience? Spending a lot of time on hard floors (eg palaces) could be OK as long as we have good breaks, as her back can get quite sore.

I have other questions to but they are in another thread.

Thanks

 

[Forg]

You’d want to include a lot of food & eating if going there, wouldn’t you?
Probably find locals that can make recommendations, food tours, that sort of stuff?

I’m sure there’re a billionty other things to do, which hopefully others will recommend … but that’s so much down my alley it’d be super high on my priority list, were it me …

 

[PaulyB]

You’d want to include a lot of food & eating if going there, wouldn’t you?
Probably find locals that can make recommendations, food tours, that sort of stuff?
I’m sure there’s a much wider range of things than that … but that’s so much down my alley it’d be super high on my priority list, were it me …

Funny! If there is one thing that makes me nervous is food. Maybe a stereotype and our ignorance but having lived and spent a lot of time in some Asian countries - I have had the best and absolute pits....

 

[Forg]

I think that’s why there’s so much value in getting someone local to recommend.

As a result of taking visitors on walking-tours of Sydney, and those working out so well ‘cos the people running those tours are so enthusiastic & there’re all this interesting facts etc about the place you live you never knew before, I Googled around heaps for other walking tours for our last trip to the UK.
It’s likely the contrarian in me, but I really enjoyed tasting VERY good foods at all sorts of places in Glasgow, given it’s renowned for bad food. But the lady guiding us around was just so enthusiastic, we had tasters of everything from a maker of sweets that’s been a family business there for 300+ years, through an example of low-cost comfort-food bought by locals during the economic downturn-times as the industrial age truly waned, into a couple of examples of modern cuisine with global influences but local produce. And not only enjoying the food, but an interesting entire day out, and all for less than we paid for a dinner in one of the Jamie Oliver cookie-cutter Italian restaurants before the chain went broke.

But I did think that Bengaluru (which I admitted I needed to Google and then realised - “oh, Bangalore!”) had a bit of a rep for decent food & nightlife ‘cos being where a lot of IT companies have set-up it means a lot of disposable income around. So I think if you can get recommendations via walking tours (or even bus tours - have done some fun food-related bus tours in Sydney) then I reckon you could get some really tasty entertainment.

 

[PaulyB]

I get it. Really good points. Thanks!

 

[blacksultan]

Nandi hills . Mysore .

 

[kookaburra75]

There was a few suggestions in this thread

Thread 'Bengaluru and Chennai. Hotel recommendations. Must see sights'

Mar 20, 2025

Finally off to India. A couple of weeks to southern India over new years. In and out of Bengaluru. Plan to stay near the airport the first night as we're flying down to Kochi the next morning. Plenty under $100.

Looking for recommendations for Chennai and Bengaluru at the end of our 10 night tour. Before they're suggested, we're not after $300+ Taj. Just comfortable places up to low $200s.

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@Ade might be able to help out with ideas too.

 

[RooFlyer]

I think that’s why there’s so much value in getting someone local to recommend.

I'm not sure if 'local' but I'm pretty sure @Ade has spent a bit of time there.

Ooops, @kookaburra75 beat me to it.