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As the story goes Bangalore was named after an old woman who served a wandering king a meal of boiled beans. There's little chance now of finding boiled beans anywhere in Bangalore, the mecca of IT in India. This former retirement town is now anything but. Spearheading in India all things 21st century, Bangalore is abuzz with energy and is really quite groovy in a tech miracle-big business school-arts and theatre kind of way.

For a long time now Bangalore has been the hip happening city of India. The beautiful weather, wide roads, tree lined avenues and relatively low real estate prices prompted its transition from garden city to India's Silicon Valley.

Bangalore has a wealth of sights for the tourist: the historical Bangalore Palace, Kempegowda Fort, Jama Masjid and Lalbagh Gradens, the sprawling Cubbon Park, the Bull Temple and the ISKCON Temple are all on any sightseeing tour. Bangalore is also India's pub city; it picked up the happy culture of beer drinking much before its urban counterparts elsewhere in India.