Four landmarks our guests never forget — with distances, timings and the tips only locals give.
The seat of the Wodeyars and the soul of the city — rosewood ceilings, stained glass durbar halls and, on Sunday evenings and through Dasara, a hundred thousand golden bulbs lit at once.
The city's guardian Goddess looks down from a thousand-metre hill, reached by a winding road or — as pilgrims have for centuries — a thousand painted steps past the great Nandi bull.
Terraced lawns, fountains and boat rides just below the KRS dam — but the real performance begins after dark, when the musical fountains dance to Kannada film classics.
A living market from the 1800s: flower lanes piled with marigold and jasmine, kumkuma in every shade of dawn, spice sacks and banana stalls — the most photogenic chaos in Karnataka.
Tell us what you love — temples, gardens, markets or palaces — and we will chart each day around the light.