Botanical garden - Bangalore India

What a wonderful holiday - pity you had tp rush though the garden, it looks fabulous.

Fantastic pictures.what a great tree.The railings perhaps, need to be a bit higher!!

I enjoyed looking over the plants from your country and your sense of humor which shines through. Thank you for a nice blog.

Thanks Steragram , an experience rather than a holiday.
Paulspatch, some beautiful plants, trees, an oasis contrasting with the surrounding streets. Makes you appreciate what we have in the UK.
Bathgate, the Uk, South of England to be precise is my home of birth. India was a holiday! tour we have just done.
Sense of humour? needed to be in overdrive to survive.

Great blog Siris the tulip trees amazing, brought back a few memories, remember OH thinking of a way to get us home when we arrived,driving through the streets to the resort was a real eye opener the poverty was unbelievable and he was wondering where he'd brought us.
Our daughter had her picture taken on an elephant and she still remembers that holiday more than any other and would go back tomorrow, always remember going in one of those little 3 wheeler taxis, of course there's only room for 3 in the back so the driver plonked eldest daughter on his knee and drove like that !!!
Couldn't get used to the cows wondering round the pool though ;-)

What year was that Simbad? The traffic jams at rush hour were horrendous, motor bikes with 4 and 5 people on them weaving in and out, using any side of the road they fancied and of course the " tuk tuk" taxis. Take your life in your hands trying to cross the roads. Apparently if you kill an animal wandering in the road, the driver is responsible and must pay compensation ( about £20 for a goat) but you can take the carcass home! An experience indeed.

1998 Siris, Crikey doesn't seem that long ago, the thing that I found quite weird was when they fumigated the plane before we all got off not when we went back strangely!!!!, Goa was beautiful and unspoilt then, bet its much more developed now, we still have some of those amazing carved ornaments they sold on the beach, the work that went into them for £1 !!!, and a carved wooden table chess set.

They still fumigate going in, not coming home. And the form filling to declare that you have been nowhere near an Ebola country, going in! Everywhere seemed so busy and dirty and polluted, the tea plantations seemed the cleanest, tidiest places, but they aren't natural. More wild life in my garden than to be seen in the countryside, don't get me wrong, never expected to see a tiger or many elephants, but apart from hooded crows not many different birds to be seen.

Thinking about no I don't remember seeing much wildlife either well except chipmunks? or something like that in the trees outside our room, lots of stray dogs which was a bit scary.

Yes, Indian Palm Squirrel, ( just googled it) an introduction from Oz, and dogs with skinny ribs, 1 ear, 3 legs, half ears,
all roaming thro, the traffic.
Might blog the fauna and flora that I photographed sometime, and Ooty botanic gardens. (Another you have 1/2 hour to visit this OR "Charing Cross market). Can't we have longer! Oh! no, no ,no - nodding of head!

The memories are mellowing with time, Homebird.

wow!! what a beautiful place :-)))

An oasis of relative calm!