We got woken up around 5:30 by a nice busboy chanting "BangaloreBangaloreBangalore". So we stepped out still half sleeping and picked up a rickshaw to our hotel. After this things started happening, the driver tried to bargain us to drive to "his" hotels, he did not know where our hotel was etc.
After a littlebit of driving around we found our accomodation in Chickpet's market district. But when we got to the door of the hotel it was still dark and locked, no problem, a night janitor came to open the door and said they have no vacancy. This was awesome news for the rickshaw man that told us to go to his place for only 700 inr/night. Luckily I had beforehand written down some addresses & phonenumbers from nearby and we got a spacious luxury room from Chandra Vihar Hotel only a few hundred meters away for under 500 inr. The Rickshaw driver took us there but then started to demand double payment for his original doubleprice. (Rickshaw drivers are refusing to use mandatory faremeters). Luckily we were in front of our future hotel and not in some dark alley, so he anyway slightly becomming aggressive decided to rather leave then kill us ;)
After a nice morning sleep we walked down to Lalbagh Botanical gardens. This Vondelpark away from home has some nice friendly monkeys, giant silk trees, a lake and lots of young lovers.
Monkeys in Lalbagh garden
Otherwise Bangalore looked ugly, crowded and is just a busy city. It was also the place where we have seen most smog this far.
View from our balcony (a quiet moment on market street)
Our Hotel was in middle of a loud neighbourhood, the City market area. We ended up experiencing with local bakeryitems filled with mysterious fruits/vegetables and abusing room service. Also the urban Indian streetfood - curries/dals served in bananaleaves, juicebars etc were present.
We also visited the Karnataka State Science Museum and spent hours walking searching for lakes/parks.
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