Our Little Weekend Trip To Bangalore

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Traveling to Bangalore was in our mind from a long time after getting married. And thanks to SBI Bank which has a strict rule to visit the home branch to close your account, hence we got the chance to visit Bengaluru again after almost 5 years. Also this trip was interesting as we were taking a 7 month old son along with us for such a long distance for the first time.

Prince Maqbool at Lalbaugh Garden

We have decided to visit Bangalore in March and selected long weekend of 16th, 17th and 18th March 2019. We have decided to visit the Koramangala SBI branch on our first day and spend next 2 days roaming around to visit the best weekend places of Bangalore.

Started our journey with sleeper bus of Sharma transport from the Katraj boarding point and from there our memorable weekend trip 🙂🙂🙂

Katraj Boarding point

After reaching Bangalore around 8:30 AM, we took an auto and get down at our Hotel Rathod Suites in Madiwala New Extension. Hotel was in congested street but the ambience and service was too good.

After having breakfast and taking few hours rest we headed to Koramangala SBI branch to close the account and in few minutes we were able to close the account due to superfast service of SBI which was unexpected.

We together at Cubbon Park Metro Station

Later we decided to visit our first place Cubbon Park which is also known as Sri Chamarajendra Park by local metro.

First Metro Ride of Maqbool

Near Cubbon Park Entrance

Cubbon Park consists of natural massive bamboos with flowerbeds with grassy expanse, which is maintained by the state horticulture department, this park also consists of motor able roads with separate walking areas to help morning walkers and joggers. In fact this gigantic park brought the name Garden City to Bangalore.

Cubbon Park

After taking a walking around Cubbon Park, we entered into a children game zone park where kids are offer with various rides and boating, next to it was Government Aquarium. It is a three story building which is mainly dedicated to different kinds of fishes.

Bangalore Government Aquarium

After spending quality time till evening we headed back to hotel and while returning we enjoyed our dinner.

Banerghatta Biological Park

Next day was reserved for Banerghatta Biological Park and Butterfly Park which was around 8km from Madiwala. Banerghatta National Park includes a Butterfly Park, a Safari Park, a Zoo, and Snake House. It takes more than 5 hours to cover all the parts of the National Park and it is popular tourist destination of Bangalore.

Butterfly Park

Third day was spend in visiting the famous Tipu Sultan’s Summer palace and Lalbaugh Botanical Garden.

We together at Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

First we visited the Tipu Sultan’s Summer palace which is unique palace entirely built using teak wood and is an example of the Indo-Islamic architecture.

Prince Maqbool at Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace

After lunch we took auto to visit Lalbaugh Botanical Garden our last destination and a must visit place on a trip to Bengaluru. The Lalbaugh Botanical Garden, as the name implies, is not a ordinary park! It is a scenic place of beauty that has lots of open spaces with numerous paths and walkways for the visitors to explore easily. There are many trees inside the garden that have been in existence for more than 100 years.

Tree Fossil of Lalbaugh Garden

After completing our visit we headed back to collect out baggage from hotel and boarded the traveler from Madiwala and reach Majestic main bus stop to catch our return bus.