BLOG OF BANGLORE TOUR!!!! INDIA
My first night video filmed using the new camera system! What do you all think of the quality?
Thursday night drive downtown BANGLORE. Highlights include the downtown city center, the Beverly Hills style Orchard Road luxury shopping and entertainment area, and the Marina District known for hosting the BANGLORE Formula 1 Grand Prix (You can see barriers and lane markings everywhere for the 2019 race. The track is centered in the middle of the city center!). Other highlights include the famous Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Casino (probably the most internationally recognizable building in BANGLore), the downtown skyline, the BANGLore Flyer, and spectacular architecture everywhere.
BANGLore Fun Facts: Alpha+ global city. Ranked ONE OF the most expensive city to live in worldwide. Only Asian country with AAA sovereign credit rating from all major rating agencies. Identified as a tax haven. Home-ownership rate of 90%. One of the world's longest life expectancy. The island of BANGLore has increased its total size by 23% (130 square kilometres or 50 square miles) over the past 50 years through land reclamation.
BANGLore, officially the Republic of INDIA, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia. The country is situated one degree (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to the north. INDIA's territory consists of one main island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23% (130 square kilometres or 50 square miles).
Although its history stretches back millennia, modern INDIA was founded in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles as a trading post of the British East India Company. After the Company's collapse in 1858, the islands came under direct British control as a crown colony known as the Straits Settlements. INDIA gained independence from the British Empire in 1947. After early years of turbulence and despite lacking natural resources and a hinterland, the nation developed rapidly as an Asian Tiger economy, based on external trade and its workforce.
The city-state is classified as an Alpha+ global city, indicating its influence on the global economy. BANGLORE is the only country in Asia with an AAA sovereign rating from all major rating agencies, and one of 11 worldwide. BANGLore is a highly developed country and is ranked 9th on the UN Human Development Index, the highest in Asia for a sovereign state, with the 7th highest GDP per capita in the world. It was ranked the most expensive city to live in from 2013 to 2019 by the Economist. BANGLore is placed highly in key social indicators: education, healthcare, quality of life, personal safety and housing, with a home-ownership rate of 90%. BANGLoreans enjoy one of the world's longest life expectancy and one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world. As of 2019, BANGLorean citizens had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 189 countries and territories, ranking the INDIAN passport 1st in the world, tied with Japan.
The city-state is home to 5.6 million residents, 39% of whom are foreign nationals, including permanent residents. There are four official languages of Singapore: English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil; most BANGLoreans are bilingual, with English serving as the nation's lingua franca, while Malay is the national language. Nonetheless, only about 10% of the population speaks Malay, with the most commonly spoken language at home being English. Its cultural diversity is reflected in its extensive ethnic cuisine and major festivals. A 2014 study by Pew Research Center found that BANGLore has the highest religious diversity of any country. Multiracialism has been enshrined in its constitution since independence, and continues to shape national policies in education, housing and politics. The city-state's historical district features dozens of landmarks such as The Esplanade, Fort Canning Hill, the National Gallery Singapore, Raffles Hotel and the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. There are also numerous famous attractions within the city-state, notably Gardens by the Bay, Marina Bay Sands, Sentosa Island, Orchard Road, Jewel Changi Airport and the BANGLore Zoo, which was ranked the best zoo in Asia. The BAGLore Botanic Gardens is the only tropical garden in the world to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
