Easy
Eat a masala dosa at Vidyarthi Bhavan
A Gandhi Bazaar tiffin room that has served the same crisp dosa since the 1940s.
Sidequest of the day
Everything else
Small things, odd things, a few hard things. No sign-up to start. Tap Done when you have done one.
Surprise me
- Easy
Order the butter masala dosa at CTR
Central Tiffin Room in Malleshwaram has made benne dosa since the 1920s and still has a queue for it.
- Easy
Read a book in silence with strangers
Cubbon Reads gets a few hundred people to sit on mats in Cubbon Park and read without talking.
- Easy
See the Bull Temple and the cave temple nearby
Two old temples a short walk apart: a giant monolithic Nandi and a Shiva shrine cut into rock.
- Easy
Watch a play at Ranga Shankara
A JP Nagar theatre that puts on a play most days of the week, with cheap tickets.
- Easy
Walk a full lap of Sankey Tank at dusk
A lake path between Malleshwaram and Sadashivanagar, full of walkers and quiet once the light goes.
- Easy
Ride the Yellow Line from one end to the other
Sixteen elevated stations from RV Road to Bommasandra give you a long look at south Bangalore from above.
- Easy
Eat your way down Mosque Road from Albert Bakery
Frazer Town's old bakery opens in the afternoon, and the rest of the street fills up after dark.
- Easy
Find what's left of old Whitefield
Before the tech parks, Whitefield was an 1882 settlement for Anglo-Indian families, and a few old bungalows still stand.
- Easy
Visit Someshwara Temple, then circle Ulsoor Lake
One of the oldest temples in the city sits a short walk from a big lake that few people use.
- Easy
See Tipu Sultan's summer palace
A two-storey teak palace from 1791, tucked into the old fort area near KR Market.
- Easy
Play with the machines at the Visvesvaraya museum
A science museum on Kasturba Road where adults can press buttons without kids judging.
- Easy
Take a random BMTC bus to its last stop
You'll end up in a neighbourhood you've never heard of, which is the point.
- Easy
Watch the sunrise from Lalbagh rock
A sheet of billions-of-years-old gneiss inside Lalbagh, with a Kempegowda watchtower on top and a wide view east.
- Medium
Walk the KR Market flower market at dawn
Before sunrise the flower floor at KR Market moves more jasmine and marigold than you've seen in your life.
- Medium
Go birding at Hesaraghatta at sunrise
The city's last big grassland has close to 300 recorded bird species and almost no crowds.
- Medium
Eat five things on VV Puram food street
A short vegetarian street near Sajjan Rao Circle where every stall does one thing.
- Medium
Walk under old fighter jets at the HAL museum
HAL's museum on Old Airport Road keeps real aircraft parked in the open, and you can walk right up to them.
- Medium
Eat donne biryani at Shivaji Military Hotel
A Jayanagar military hotel that has served biryani in leaf bowls for close to a century.
- Medium
Walk the walls of Devanahalli Fort
A fort near the airport first built around 1501, with Tipu Sultan's birthplace inside the old town.
- Medium
Catch the sunrise at Nandi Hills
On a good winter morning you stand above the clouds 60 km from your flat.
- Medium
Walk Chickpet and Avenue Road on a weekday
The oldest market streets in the city sell everything from silk saris to secondhand textbooks.
- Medium
Visit Nrityagram, the dance village
A residential Odissi dance school outside Hesaraghatta, built in mud and stone by an architect for its dancers.
- Medium
Buy a wooden toy in Channapatna
The town that makes lacquered wooden toys is an hour away, and you can watch them turned on a lathe.
- Medium
Look for vultures at Ramadevarabetta
India's first vulture sanctuary sits in the rocky hills of Ramanagara, where Sholay was shot.
- Medium
Have breakfast at four darshinis in one morning
Standing-only tiffin counters are the city's real breakfast, and each does one thing best.
- Medium
Climb Makalidurga and look down on the lake
A boulder trail near Doddaballapura that ends at a ruined fort and a Shiva temple above a lake.
- Hard
Do the Skandagiri sunrise trek
A night climb to a ruined hill fort near Chikkaballapur, timed to see the sun come up over the clouds.
- Hard
Climb Savandurga, the big monolith
One of the largest single rocks in Asia sits an hour west of the city, and you can walk up it.
- Hard
Take a day trip to Lepakshi
A 16th-century temple across the Andhra border, with a hanging pillar and a giant stone Nandi.
- Hard
See Shivanasamudra falls and Talakadu's sand temples
The Kaveri drops off a cliff at one stop and buries a town's temples in sand at the next.
- Hard
Climb Kunti Betta before dawn
Twin rocky hills near Pandavapura with a sunrise view over Thonnur lake and paddy fields.
- Hard
Walk from Hebbal Lake to Lalbagh
About 13 km from north to south on foot, and you'll know how the neighbourhoods connect.
- Hard
Take the train to Bangarapet for pani puri
A town in Kolar district famous for its chaat, reachable by a cheap train ride east.
- Hard
Touch every metro terminal in one day
Six terminals across three lines, and you get to know the network better than most commuters do.
- Legendary
Take the overnight train to Hampi
Board a sleeper on Friday night and wake up near the ruins of the Vijayanagara capital.
- Legendary
Climb Kumara Parvatha
One of the toughest treks in Karnataka: 13 km each way from Kukke Subramanya to the summit.
- Legendary
Cycle from the city to the top of Nandi Hills
About 60 km out of the city, then a long climb up the hairpins to the top.
- Legendary
Reach all four edges of the city by bus and metro
Yelahanka, Whitefield, Kengeri and Electronic City in one day, no cabs, no autos.
- Easy
Buy one fruit you've never eaten at Russell Market
A 1920s covered market in Shivajinagar with stalls for fruit, meat, flowers and dry goods.