Neighbors

These are our neighbors in Electronics City, one of the largest tech-parks in India. While Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of India, EC is the Silicon Valley of Bangalore. Divided into three phases, EC hosts so many IT, electronics & electrical companies in and around its area. While India's largest IT companies like Infosys, Wipro (our neighour & my previous company too) & HCL has their offices in Phase I, the Ranked one TCS is located in Phase II. Other MNCs like Bosch, Siemens, HP, Audi, Cisco etc are also present in EC.

Not so crowded place, EC is slowly becoming a residential area too, as people started preferring staying near their office and avoid Bangalore city traffic. The 10km long Elevated Tollway(BETL) made the travelling time to Bangalore city from EC just under 10 mins (see my post). And the best road in Bangalore, the NICE road is also less than a km away from EC. With the next phase of Bangalore metro is reaching EC, it will become one of the nice place to live & work in Bangalore.

Wipro S1 & S2 tower

 View from our balcony at 12th floor. The apartment in the picture is Ajmera Infinity

Me & my friends on NICE road, near EC.

Coorg

Visited Coorg this long weekend, monday being holiday due to Eid-ul-Fitr. We started from Bangalore on Sunday morning and reached back on monday evening, its about 260KM from Bangalore. We went via Mysoore but didn't spend time in visiting the famous palaces there, I have seen them many times before. The drive was very good as the roads were very nice & almost empty after Mysoore. We could see tobacco agriculture all over the road side after Mysoore.

There was rain prediction at Coorg but luckily it didn't rain & we got a wonderful stay at Honey pot homestay which was in the middle of 250 acres of coffee estate. We spent the evening in coorg & had a horrible driving experience to Abbi walls. The road was pathetic and narrow to Abbi water falls. The Raja's seat was worth visiting and is near the town itself. The best part was the dinner at the homestay with some home-made wines we got from local shops in Coorg.

On the way back we visited Nisargadhama too.

                                                                              Honeypot home-stay

Abbi Falls

View from Raja's seat

 

Nisargadhama