This off-beat walk explores Bangalore beyond landmarks — into living traditions, working neighbourhoods, spiritual spaces, and age-old crafts. It unfolds as a slow, immersive journey through markets, shrines, workshops, and streets where everyday life continues much as it has for generations, revealing the city’s layered cultural soul.
Tour Program
- Pete: As we move through the old city, it feels like stepping into Bengaluru’s working memory. Narrow lanes open into dense marketplaces where silks, flowers, spices, fruits, and everyday essentials trade hands in a rhythm unchanged for decades. Within this maze, crafts quietly survive — silk weavers guiding threads on age-old looms, silversmiths shaping metal with fire and instinct, and Garadi Mane wrestlers training on mud floors with discipline passed down through generations. Tucked into this bustle, a Sufi dargah offers a moment of stillness, drawing people of all faiths into prayer and reflection. Together, these spaces reveal a city where commerce, craft, faith, and daily life coexist seamlessly.
- Lunch: The walk pauses for a simple banana leaf lunch — unhurried, nourishing, and rooted in tradition. Served in sequence on a fresh green leaf, the meal encourages mindful eating and easy conversation, offering a quiet moment of rest within the larger journey.
- Gurudwara: At the Gurudwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, gleaming white marble and open spaces reflect Sikh values of equality, service, and community. As we spend time here, the atmosphere feels peaceful and welcoming, grounded in the belief that faith is best expressed through humility, seva, and shared responsibility.
- Ulsoor Neighbourhood: Ulsoor (Halasuru) reveals itself through everyday neighbourhood life. We move past old tiled homes, narrow residential lanes, and small shrines tucked into walls and street corners — spaces that quietly support livelihoods, routines, and long-standing belief systems. This part of the walk carries a village-like calm within the city, where history survives through lived experience rather than display. The walk culminates at the Ulsoor market, where local trade, familiar faces, and daily transactions bring the neighbourhood together, reflecting its enduring social and economic rhythm.
- Smashana Kali Temple: Located within one of Bengaluru’s oldest burial grounds, the Smashana Kali Temple is among the city’s most powerful and unusual shrines. Devotion here is raw and intense, with rituals performed to ward off negative energies, remove the evil eye, and invoke protection and strength. The scent of camphor, oil, and flowers blends with rhythmic chants, creating an atmosphere that feels powerful yet calming — a space where faith, protection, and inner balance come together.
Starting Point
Your hotel* (7kms within the limits of MG Road metro station)
Your hotel*Address
