Love Bengaluru

By Delmar Thomson Learning and Fiona Caulfield

Love Travel Guides are a complete departure from the traditional mass-market books. Love Travel guides present a curated selection of Indian experiences that have been chosen to help the traveller... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8190432249
• ISBN13: 9788190432245
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Hardys Bay Publishing Pvt Ltd
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

LOVE MUMBAI

Love Mumbai is a must have if you're traveling to Mumbai. I take it everywhere I go. Brilliantly researched, the book is very easy to use and is a fun read. Whether you're in the city for a couple of days or a few weeks it's the book to buy. Go from tourist to local in a matter of pages. It's also beautifully packaged, so makes a great gift for anyone traveling to Mumbai.

Love this book!

I have stopped buying traditional guide books for two reasons: 1. Their efforts to condense a whole country into one publication leave you with two or three pages, at best, about your specific destination; and 2. They are the LAST thing you want to carry around with you when travelling, it would be easier to haul around three house-bricks. But the arrival of Love Bangalore has changed my mind: a beautifully written, concise, informative, educated guide book that caters to my taste, my city, and my budget. It is one book that I'd be HAPPY to carry around with me; in fact, if you're visiting Bangalore, you MUST carry it around with you! The restaurant reviews are top notch and get business visitors out of the 5-star hotel restaurant rut; the shopping is spot-on, a perfect blend of splurge and bargain hunting; and the sightseeing tips will open up your eyes to a whole new Bangalore that you never knew existed. It may now be the high-tec capital of India, but Fiona's book ensures that you see beyond that, to the real Bangalore. Be sure to visit the city before the new takes over the old, and be sure to get this book for your trip.

Love for a City: No Bull

If you just want to know there's a Bull Temple in Bangalore, get any travel guide to India. If you want to know how to find the Bull Temple, hop into an auto-rickshaw once you've arrived and just say "Bull Temple, please, sir." But if you'd like to visit Bangalore the way you visit New York or Paris or Hong Kong, then this is the book you will want. Instead of a list of all the sights from which you must choose, Ms. Caulfield has screened the city and made choices for you. She describes and recommends hotels, restaurants, shops, and weekend getaways. Many I would never have found on my own. In some, I was the only foreigner. I believe she loves Bangalore. Now so do I.

The difference between a predictable visit and a rewarding experience

The more I travel, the more I find myself doing the exact opposite of what they recommend in LonelyRoughPlanetGuides. For people who want the less packaged, less touristey, more authentic and everyday experience of what it's like to truly live in a city they're visiting, with the special touches locals know and appreciate, Fiona Caulfield has cracked it with Love Bangalore. I used this guide on a second trip to Bangalore earlier this year and my impression of the place went from soulless and chaotic to sensual and exhilirating. With a style that harkins back to old-school voyagers and substance geared for 21st-century globalists, I can't wait for Ms. Caulfield to cover more cities in India, and beyond. Love Bangalore is not for the insular paise-pinching backpacker crowd or fake seven-star Indiaphile-wannabes, each who have created their own bland version of sameness throughout Asia. For those who want to have the feeling of living abroad with individuality and style, even when just vacationing for a week or two, there is nothing in the world of travel advice like this book. I love it.

All You Need To Experience Banglore

I recently purchased this guide for a trip to quick Bangalore and it was super-helpful. It is concise, well-edited and feels as though it was written by someone who really knows the city well. It doesn't look or feel like typical travel guides. I used it for both restaurant recommendations and a bit of shopping - and it was dead on every time. Many believe that Bangalore is just a business and tech center, but this book showed me there is a lot more going on there besides the obvious. Love Bangalore also has some great ideas for nearby "weekend escapes" like Mysore and Hampi. And some good tips on local customs and etiquette All around I found it really useful and enlightening.