Tourist Places Near Bangalore

Bannerghatta Biological Park Guide: Safari, Zoo & Tips (Bengaluru) I'll admit I went in with low expectations. Someone in Bengaluru told me to spend a Sunday at Bannerghatta, and I pictured a cramped city zoo — a couple of tired enclosures, a snack stall, an hour and done. That lasted about ten minutes into the safari bus, watching a lioness stretch out on a rock less than twenty feet from the window, before I put my phone down and just watched. Bannerghatta Biological Park sits roughly 22 kilometres south of the city on Bannerghatta Road, carved out of the much larger Bannerghatta National Park that was declared back in 1974. What sets it apart from most zoos I've been to in India is the safari — separate open-vehicle rides through enclosures for lions, tigers, bears, and herbivores, run through forest that still feels like forest rather than a paved loop with animals dropped in. Add a proper walk-thr...