One day in Bangalore and your head hits the pillow...hard!

Okay gang, between issues with my blogging app and being absolutely exhausted last night, you all didn't get any insight into my day... which was AWESOME! So, here we go with the first post of many describing our day.

One of our great team members we have over here, of which we have many, came to join us and show us around. Praveen has been to Minneapolis several times and both me and my manager know him very well. So we were very excited to have his help and company on our day's adventures!

The plan, meet Praveen and our driver (more on that in a future post), downstairs at our hotel at 10 AM. The day was wide open plan-wise. We decided upon a trip to UB City. The UB stands for United Breweries, or more accurately the UB Group. The UB group is a conglomerate of companies with the main focus being the brewery industry and Kingfisher beer. As I mentioned in a previous post, Kingfisher is THE beer in India and the UB Group is the largest producer of beer in India. I digress... ;)

So UB City is essentially a "city" within the heart of Bangalore with hotels, apartments, restaurants, and shopping. The big news is the chairman of the UB Group is building a big complex within the city where he will live as well. So here is a shot of one of the towers within this walled "city"


You enter and head up to the 4th floor where there is a long street filled with restaurants. The shot above is a shot at the end of this street. Very "western" but pretty dang impressive. Here is a shot of the "street"


At the end of the street on the other side, is a fairly large shopping area. Here's a shot of that:


Very high end shops. So all in all a pretty cool place. As you can tell, it was pretty dreary in the morning so we settled on our brunch/lunch place:


The Tasty Tangles was very good but pretty western. Not unlike a Big Bowl to a degree. Don't worry, we took care of that for our dinner choice (future post)! So, as we ate, the skies began to clear and our next choice was clear as well: as mentioned, we decided upon Bannerghatta National Park. I'll be posting those pics a little later this morning. Pretty awesome (and by awesome, I mean totally sweet) safari-like ride through a preserve with lions, bears, and tigers literally right next to the buses that take you though the park. Kind of felt more like the way it should be...we were in the cages and they were walking around! All in all, a great way to start the day and get our stomachs full for the ride and park that became our afternoon. Have a great night everyone and look for another post later... Or when you wake up on Sunday! Miss you all!

~ Rich

Location:Old Madras Rd,Bengaluru,India