Bangalore holiday package for guided Travelling in Bangalore

Visit the vibrant cosmopolitan city of Bangalore. Bangalore holiday packages to explore the major industrial and commercial center of the south India, known as the Silicon Valley of the country, ‘The city of Gardens', loaded with numerous gardens and historical sites provides an exciting experience of travelling in Bangalore.

India is one of the world’s largest—and fastest growing—IT centers. And it’s Bengaluru (until 2006 known as Bangalore) that is the main IT center for the country. It also is important center of the civil and military aerospace industry and aerospace research of India. Because of the numerous park areas, Bengaluru is also often called as the "garden city".

Bangalore is the capital of the state Karnataka and is home to more than 4,931,603 people. Bengaluru is also the capital of the district Bangalore and Bangalore Rural District. It lies in the Deccan-tableland, in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, at the height about 2700 feet above sea level.

During December 2005, the government of Karnataka announced that it has accepted the proposal of the Jnanpith-Award-winner U. R. Ananthamurthy to rename the English name of the city into its Kannada name authority Bengaluru. The new name became effective jointly with the name changes of additional cities in Karnataka from November 2006 onwards, which is considered the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the state.

The history of Bangalore is as rich as its surroundings. Bengaluru was established probably in 1537 by Kempe Gowda I (1510-1570). Kempe Gowda should have selected the name for this new city Bengaluru because his mother and his wife come from a settlement bearing the same name that exists still today near Bengaluru as a Halebengaluru. According to other legends, during the 10th century an old woman gave cooked beans to King Veeraballa in a meal when he had gotten lost in the forest. Out of gratitude, he named the place Benda Kaluru, the "city of cooked beans". The British under Charles Cornwallis conquered the city in 1799 during a battle with a Tipu sultan and renamed it to "Bangalore".

In 1898, thousands of people died from a plague epidemic. As a result, the British built a modernized sewage and public health services system. Homes now featured some of the world’s most modern plumbing systems, and the Victoria Hospital was opened during 1900. Those modernizations also helped the city quickly become one of India’s largest cities. After 1950, the cities of Basavanagudi, Malleshwaram, Kalasipalyam, Gandhinagar and Jayanagar emerged.

Now called the “Indian Silicon Valley”, many native and foreign computer firms and high-technology companies have made Bangalore home. Companies such as Intel, Accenture, IBM, Cisco system, Dell, Oracle, Bosch, Mico, HP, SAP, Motorola, Infosys technologies Ltd., Siemens, Texas instruments, Novell or Wipro technologies are housed at the International Technology Park (ITPL). Because of the number of business visitors to Bangalore, the Bangalore international airport is around 5 miles east of the city.

But Bangalore is not only a high-tech, fashion-conscious city. It still has many sites worth seeing while there. Bengaluru is known as the "garden city" because of it’s many large parks. The largest are Lal Bagh, a beautiful park its large glass greenhouse and flowerbed, and Cubbon Park. Further sights are Vidhana Sabha (the parliament) and the High Court, as well as many small and large temples and two to three Christian churches. Large and beautiful ISKCON temple, dedicated to Lord Krishna, is also worth seeing.

The park area of Lal Bagh south of the city center was established in 1740 by Hyder Ali. It is rich in tropical and subtropical plants, which were imported in part by Tippu sultan, and harbors a botanical garden (Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens).

Take a side trip and visit Sravanabelagolalocated near Mysore in the south Indian state Karnataka., where you’ll find one of the five temple mounts of the Jains. At the temple you will see the 57-foot-high statue of Bahubali, who was a son of the ruler Vrishabhadeva, and battled with his brother for the succession of the throne. After he had conquered his brother, Bahubali secluded himself in the forest for meditation. After his enlightenment, he entitled the name "Gomatheswara". The statue built in 985 AD by Chamundaraya, was carved out of a single rock and you’ll need to climb 500 steps to get to the statue. On the way you’ll pass through different gates, shrines and sculptures … and then you’ll emerge into a court surrounded by high walls, where the awesome statue stands. The figure represents a Jain ascetic, Gommata or Gommateshwara. The Digambara custom is to show statues entirely naked, which symbolizes the final renunciation of the all worldly. It is considered the largest monolithic statue of the world.

The ceremony mahamastakabhisheka is held every 12 years in Bangalore. At that time, the colossal statue is spilled with milk, Ghee, coconut milk, honey and yogurt. For this purpose, large scaffolding is constructed. The last time, the event took place in December 2005.

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