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Bengaluru guide

Bengaluru: the garden city and its palaces

Lalbagh's glasshouse, Bangalore Palace, a vibrant food scene and Mysore within reach.

Bengaluru, India's technology capital, is also known as the Garden City, and the Lalbagh Botanical Garden, with its Victorian glasshouse, and Cubbon Park are its most cited sights. Bangalore Palace, modelled on Windsor Castle, and Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace recall its royal past.

The city has one of India's liveliest restaurant and craft beer scenes, and South Indian breakfasts of dosa and filter coffee are a ritual. Mysore and its palace are about three hours away, and the climate is pleasant for most of the year.

Mysore Palace: a day from Bengaluru

Mysore Palace, the seat of the Wadiyar maharajas, is the most cited excursion from Bengaluru, about three hours away by road or train. Its Indo-Saracenic halls are lavish, and on Sunday evenings and during the Dasara festival in autumn it is lit by nearly 100,000 bulbs.

On the way, Srirangapatna was the island fortress of Tipu Sultan, and in Mysore the Chamundi Hill temple and the Devaraja market, with its flowers, sandalwood and silk, are worth the visit. Leave early to avoid traffic leaving the city.

Coorg: coffee estates in the Western Ghats

Coorg, or Kodagu, in the Western Ghats about five hours from Bengaluru, is the most cited weekend escape from the city: misty hills covered with coffee and pepper estates, where a plantation walk and a tasting are the classic experience.

Abbey Falls, the Namdroling Monastery of the Tibetan settlement at Bylakuppe and the Dubare elephant camp are nearby, and Kodava cuisine, with pork curry and rice dumplings, is distinctive. October to March is the driest, most pleasant season.

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