Bangalore

After 5 days in Delhi, we flew to Bangalore, where the weather is much warmer, the food a little spicier, and the language even stranger to American ears.

Today I went to the Hare Krishna temple in Bangalore, the biggest in Asia. It was a pretty bizarre experience overall, but what I saw of the temple was beautiful. Again no photos were allowed, so my photography is limited to what I could get from outside the main grounds. The big thing they do here is feed children lunches in schools in poor rural areas, which not only feeds hungry kids, but also keeps them in school and out of trouble (and teaches them religion). India uses crore and lakhs to describe large numbers, so I was told that they feed “lakhs and lakhs of schoolchildren,” or 10 lakhs to be exact, which the rest of us would say is one million children they feed each day. It sounds like an amazing operation.

This little temple across the street was quite beautiful as well.














Bangles
After my very mellow morning in the temple, I stopped by one of the shopping streets in Bangalore—Commercial Street. What was the most fun was actually not the big street, but the tons of little shops on the side streets, where they had lahks of bangles. I would have never known, but bangles come in pretty precise sizes, and they have an art of putting them on your wrist that probably can’t be recreated at home, so I didn’t buy anything I couldn’t get on my hand myself.