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Weave your way around this lively colourful market past fresh produce, piles of vibrant
dyes, spices and copperware. The colourful flower market in the centre is the highlight.
Sundays are the best with more roadside vendors opening up.
FORT
Bangalore Fort
MAP
GOOGLE MAP
The last remnants of this 1761 fort is a peaceful escape from the chaotic surrounds,
with its manicured lawn and stone pink walls. There's a small dungeon here, and Ganesh
temple with its Mooshak (ratlike creature) statue.
Bull Temple & Dodda Ganesha Temple
(Bull Temple Rd, Basavangudi; 7am-8.30pm)
Built by Kempegowda in the 16th-century Dravidi-
an style, the Bull Temple contains a huge granite monolith of Nandi and is one of
Bengaluru's most atmospheric temples. Nearby is the
Swee Dodda Ganapathi Temple,
(Bull Temple
Rd, Basavangudi; 7am-8.30pm)
with an equally enormous Ganesh idol. The temples are about
a kilometre south of Tipu Sultan's Palace, down Krishnarajendra Rd.
HINDU TEMPLE
Iskcon Temple
(
www.iskconbangalore.org
;
Chord Rd, Hare Krishna Hill; 7am-1pm & 4-8.30pm)
Built by the Internation-
al Society of Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), also referred to as the Hare Krishnas, this
shiny temple, inaugurated in 1997, is lavishly decorated in a mix of ultra-contemporary
and traditional styles.
HINDU TEMPLE
Activities
Ayurvedagram
( 65651090;
www.ayurvedagram.com
; Hemmandanhalli, Whitefield)
Set over 15 acres of tranquil gar-
dens with heritage homes transplanted from Kerala, this centre specialises in specifically
tailored Ayurverdic treatments and rejuvenation programs.
YOGA
Soukya
( 28017000;
www.soukya.com
; Soukya Rd, Samethanahalli, Whitefield; 6am-8.30pm)
Soukya offers
some fantastic long-term programs in ayurvedic therapy and yoga (seven days from
?6600) as well as medical and therapeutic skin treatments (?2750 per hour) at its interna-
tionally renowned place set on a picture-perfect 30-acre organic farm.
YOGA
