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  • 🧭 Unique Experiences

    Gandhi Bazaar

    Basavanagudi

    Basavanagudi's traditional market street, lined with flower and condiment sellers, fruit and cloth shops, temples and long-running eateries such as Vidyarthi Bhavan.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 🧭 Unique Experiences

    Freedom Park

    Central Bengaluru · Free entry (Karnataka Tourism)

    A 21-acre public park on the site of the old Bangalore Central Jail, opened in 2008, where the barracks, watch tower and gallows area are kept alongside lawns and the city's main protest ground.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • ☕ Independent Cafés

    Mavalli Tiffin Rooms (MTR), Lalbagh Road

    Lalbagh

    The flagship of a vegetarian restaurant that began in 1924 and has run from its Art Deco building on Lalbagh Road since 1959. It is widely credited with inventing the rava idli.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 📚 Bookstores

    Avenue Road

    Old City (Pete)

    A crowded trading street through the old Pete, once called Doddapete, where phone, jewellery and textile traders share space with a long-running second-hand textbook trade.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 🧭 Unique Experiences

    Chickpet

    Old City (Pete)

    A dense old-city market quarter with roots in the 16th century, known for cloth shops, silk sarees and wholesale trade spread across a maze of lanes.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 🧭 Unique Experiences

    Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath

    Central Bengaluru

    An art complex on Kumarakrupa Road founded in 1960, with galleries of permanent collections (including Nicholas Roerich, Mysore paintings and leather puppets), rented exhibition halls and a fine arts college.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 🌿 Hidden Spots

    Turahalli Forest and Tree Park

    Kanakapura Road

    A patch of scrub and dry deciduous forest off Kanakapura Road near Uttarahalli and Banashankari 6th Stage, with a 38-acre tree park on one side. Researchers have recorded 139 bird species here.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • ☕ Independent Cafés

    CTR (Shri Sagar), Malleshwaram

    Malleshwaram · About ₹150 for two (South First, March 2023); benne masala dosa ₹90 (News24, Jan 2025)

    A vegetarian tiffin room in Malleshwaram dating to the 1920s, also called Shri Sagar, known above all for its butter-laden benne masala dosa.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • ☕ Independent Cafés

    Veena Stores

    Malleshwaram

    A small stand-and-eat breakfast counter on Margosa Road, running since 1977, known for soft idlis, crisp vadas and its runny chutney.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 🌿 Hidden Spots

    Sri Dharmaraya Swamy Temple

    Old City (Pete)

    An old Dravidian-style temple in the Pete dedicated to the Pandavas, Krishna and Draupadi. It is the ritual centre of the Bengaluru Karaga, whose night procession starts and ends here each spring.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 📚 Bookstores

    Church Street

    Central Bengaluru

    A 750 m cobbled street running parallel to MG Road, from Brigade Road to St. Mark's Road, packed with secondhand bookshops, cafes, restaurants and nightlife.

    Why it’s here: Recently added

  • 🌿 Hidden Spots

    Puttenahalli Lake (Puttakere)

    JP Nagar

    A small neighbourhood lake of about 13 acres in JP Nagar 7th Phase, ringed by a walking track of roughly 920 m and revived over years by local residents.

    Why it’s here: Recently added