So Michael and I went into downtown Bangalore today so we could purchase cheap shirts for tonights Holi festival at a couple of the guy's from work's house (more on this in next post).
So we had a new driver, Arun, who was my driver from the airport to hotel. He was great. Most shops were either closed or opening late due to the holiday and today being Sunday. So Arun mentioned going to Shiva temple, since Michael hadn't seen it we went.
We drove by Cubbon park which is 300 acres in middle of downtown. We went by the government buildings again. Arun mentioned an art museum so we went in there to kill time. It had nice ancient sculptures, arms, musical instruments, and paintings. We left early because it lost power and didn't seem like it was going back on at any time soon.
Next we went to a shop where Michael got first hand knowledge of how persistent the shop keepers can be. Even after we bought something and we were pulling out of driveway the salesman came out to try one more deal.
We ate at this great restaurant, Tandoor. The food was excellent.
Next a quick stop off at the Bangalore palace for Michael.
Commercial street was being dug up so we couldn't shop there. It's one of the major roads with shops. We found a side alley store that sold us two white shirts for 2 dollars. Afterwards we went back to hotel to decompress.
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