Now, walk to soak in the city’s sights

Now, walk to soak in the city’s sights
Deccan Herald

If you are on hate-hate vibes with your choking, crumbling city, there’s hope still. There’s a new way to look at Bangalore, which could leave you loving it even more. All you need to do is take a walk. Welcome to ‘Bangalore Walks’, an initiative calling for Bangaloreans to come and relish the experience of walking in the City.

If you are on hate-hate vibes with your choking, crumbling city, there’s hope still. There’s a new way to look at Bangalore, which could leave you loving it even more. All you need to do is take a walk. Welcome to ‘Bangalore Walks’, an initiative calling for Bangaloreans to come and relish the experience of walking in the City. Unlike conventional guide tours, here the experience gets more real.

The three-kilometre, three-hour walk (7 am to 10 am) on weekends can lend you a new perspective on roads and structures that you would traipse past otherwise.

An attendance at the Trinity Church on MG Road could take you the Victorian Era. And a walk down the MG Road could leave you with a bit of history to stroll with. For the uninitiated, Winston Churchill has walked the road as well! It was an year back when Arun Pai, a former corporate sector employee, took up a one-man mission of promoting Bangalore. Since then, he has been able to rope in many Bangaloreans to participate in these walks. Arun, who has ventured into cycling tours around Cantonment area and walks in Lal Bagh, apart from the two walks (Victorian Bangalore and End of an Era) during weekends, has been conducting school tours as well.

“Since there is no substantial written data available on this City, I thought it would serve the dual purpose of cataloguing the data and introducing people to old places in a new fashion,” says Arun.

Deepti Swamy, an entrepreneur who took this walk along with her husband, says it’s the best way to get to know the City.

“The walk has been very informative and interesting. It has been the perfect way to relax, because of its nice and slow pace,” she says.

For more details on the walks, call Arun on 98455 23660 or visit www.bangalorewalks.com

Grin and ‘beer’ it!

If raising yourself up early on a weekend is a task, then go for the ‘Beer Walk’. It will also explain Bangalore’s sobriquet of ‘Pub City’. In-depth information will be served along with mugs of beer and a sumptuous dinner. With four different pubs and several untold tales of the brewery business, in a span of three hours on a Sunday evening, even the most cynical of our lot could end up wondering why we wanted to leave this City after all.