There is more to Bangalore than Lalbagh, Cubbon Park, Vidhan Soudha and MTR. We have visited over 50 interesting places across 25 day trips in and around Bangalore. Almost all these trips are 7.30 AM to 3.30 PM day trips. Ancient temples 1000’s of years old, beautiful serene ashrams, Treks – Easy and not so easy, traditional restaurants, unique resorts …. and a lot many more of Good Places.

So form your groups of a Few Good People and explore Bangalore like never before by following these 25 curated day trips.  Every trip is documented after personal travel – which is what makes it authentic. (Text in Dark Blue is clickable Link)

• Trips 1,2,& 3  : Pyramid Valley, Bhoga Nandeeshwara Temple, Basavangudi temples 
  • Trip – 1 : Pyramid Valley – Kanakpura Road
  • Trip – 2 : Bhoga Nandeeshwara Temple , School of Ancient Wisdom (Near the Devanahalli Airport)
  • Trip – 3 : Basavangudi the heart of Bangalore.  Brahmins Cafe – Ramkrishna Ashram – Gave Gangadeshwar Cave Temple –  hanuman Temple on a Hill – Jain temple

• Trips 4 & 5 : City Trips – Old Chola temples, Ashrams, Planetarium, Art galleries 
  • Trip – 4 : A city trip in and around MG Road (Suryanarayana Temple – Someshwara Temple – National Gallery of Modern art – Planetarium)
  • Trip – 5 : A city trip (Chokkanathar Perumal Temple Domlur – ISCKON Temple Banaswadi – Sapta Rishi Ashram Hennur)

• Trips 6 & 7 : Lepakshi & Shivaganga
  • Trip – 6 : Visit to Lepakshi
  • Trip – 7 : Shivaganga Trek

• Trip 8 : Malleswaram Temples & more 
  • Trip 8 : Veena Stores – Temples of Malleswaram – Kote Venkataramana Temple – Mahabodhi Society of Bangalore

• Trip 9 : Kolar & Avani 
  • Kolar & Avani – Ancient Kolaramama Temple – Shiva Temple from Chola era, Ancient Ramalingeshwara temples at Avani

• Trip 10 : Devrayani Durga
  • Fascinating Green hill temple of Devrayani Durga – Siddha Garden – Nammade Chilumme ( Place where Rama supposedly shot an arrow in the ground for water to put his Nama)

• Trip 11 : Baevu Village 
  • Baevu Village – A lovely nature resort with thousands of Neem trees surrounded by Hills – Off Kanakpura Road

• Trip 12 : Shivanasamudra, Talakad & Somathpura 
  • An adventurous day trip that took us almost to the edge of Mysore – Shivanasamudra, Talakad, Somnathpura

• Trip 13 : Antarganga trek 
  • Antargana Trek – A hillock near Kolar with fascinating dark caves that need you to be adventurous and flexible to explore

• Trip 14 : Bangalore Palaces & Forts 
  • MTR – Bull temple – Bugle Rock park – Tipu Summer palace – Bangalore Fort – KR Market – Bangalore Palace – Esplanade

• Trip 15 : Grover Zampa Vineyard 
  • Visit Bangalore’s very own Vine Yard – The Grover Zampa Vine Yard near Devanahalli

• Trip 16 : Mandargiri 
  • Mandargiri – On Tumkur Road near Hoskote visit an ancient Jain temple complex on the top of a monolithic hill

• Trip 17 : Sushil Dham Jain Temple & An ancient Shiva Temple  
  • Sushil Dham Jain temple complex
  • Chandra Choodeshwar Shiva temple

• Trip 18 : Trek to Madhugiri 
  • Near Tumkur – Head on the Tumkur Road till Dobaspet and then drive past Devrayani Durga to reach Madhugiri.
  • A steep Monolithic hill supposedly Asias 2nd tallest at 3930 feet. A tough and challenging trek – not for the weak hearted

• Trip 19 : Rangasthala – An Ancient Vishnu temple at Chickballapur  
  • Visit an ancient Vishnu temple Rangasthala – over 1000 years old
  • Devanahalli fort of Haider Ali and the birth place of Tipu
  • Venugopalaswami temple
  • Lunch @ South Ruchi’s Square
• Trip 20 : Channapatna 
  • Malur Krishna – An ancient Chola temple built by Rajendra Simha Chola on the banks of the river Kanva
  • Aprameya Temple – A unique ancient temple of crawling baby Krishna. The great Vaishnavite sage Ramanujacharya is said to have worshipped the lord at this temple.
  • Kokrebellur – a Town full of painted storks and many more migratory birds (25 Km from Channapatna)
• Trip 21 – 25: Family Treks around Bangalore. 
  • Savandurga
  • Channarayadurgs
  • Ramadevara Betta (Vulture Sanctuary)
  • Muthurayanabetta
  • Haddina Kallu (Eagle Stone Hill)

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