Someshwara Temple, Ulsoor, 16th Century

Right next to MG Road in the heart of the city, a beautiful living 16th century temple. With a quaint old market next to it with narrow lanes and the smell of spices - don't miss that, ask anyone for the vegetable market. This is on the way to Cubbon park, Commercial Street. I discovered this temple thanks to the INTACH Heritage Walks.

You need to remove your shoes to walk inside, but you can wear socks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halasuru_Someshwara_Temple,_Bangalore

INTACH: http://www.intachblr.org/

Mail intach.blr@gmail.com to get on to their mailing list. Their walks get sold out in minutes, they are so good. :) 

Photo from the Net.

Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens

Around 200 acres, started in the 1760s by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, with rare plants and trees from all over the world. There is a lake on one side, a lotus pond, and a 200-year-old Silk Cotton Tree. Takes about an hour to walk the entire park, but you can do bits.

Lal Bagh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal_Bagh

Giant Cotton Trees

Don't miss the lotus pond near the lake.

Lal Bagh is stunning in May.

Album: https://goo.gl/photos/MMdHmyViKxK947TG9

Gulmohars in bloom in May

Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, 1791

With a museum inside, on the ground floor. Lovely Islamic architecture, gardens. Great place for photography, the light upstairs is lovely, since it is open on all sides.There is a beautiful temple also right next to it, you can club both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan's_Summer_Palace

This is in South Bangalore, you can club it with visits to Bull Temple, Gandhi Bazaar, Lal Bagh Botanical Gardens.

Tipu Sultan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan

Tipu Sultan (20 November 1750  – 4 May 1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore, Dipu Sultan and Tipu Sahib, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, scholar and poet, recognized as one of the greatest South Asian rulers of all time.

..Tipu expanded the iron-cased Mysorean rockets and wrote the military manual Fathul Mujahidin, considered a pioneer in the use of rocket artillery. He deployed the rockets against advances of British forces and their allies in their 1792 and 1799 Siege of Srirangapatna.

...Napoleon, the French commander-in-chief who later became emperor, sought an alliance with Tipu. In alliance with the French in their struggle with the British, and in Mysore's struggles with other surrounding powers, both Tipu and his father used their French trained army against the Marathas, Sira, and rulers of Malabar, Kodagu, Bednore, Carnatic, and Travancore.

Gandhi Bazaar, Basavanagudi

Lovely open-air vegetable, fruit, and spice market, in South Bangalore. Very close to the Bull Temple.

http://indianbazaars.blogspot.in/2010/04/bazaar-tour-gandhi-bazaar-bangalore.html