Bangalore (So. Karnataka) - February 7th, 2007

I went to visit the fort and Tipu Sultan Palace near the City Market. From there, I went to the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, which is a 96 hectare park with a lot of red flowers and century old trees. There is a glasshouse like the London's Crystal Palace., and a watchtower on top of a rock with a very wide base and the surface looks like washed out rock formations. Probably some water falling activity from the lake or underground long time ago.
The Cubbon Park is like Central Park in New York, 120 hectares, but the traffic runs thru it. Visited there the government museum, the aquarium and the Art Gallery. In the way out, the Vidhana Soudha, which is a colossal building of Dravidian style. It was built by convicts in 1954 and the Secretariat and State Legistature is there now.
I went by the Bangalore Palace which looks like the Windsor Castle, with granite turrets, towers and all. The Wodeyar rajas of Mysore live there and the guards wear red caps like in England.