Click to play videoBangalore: Bangalore Rounds is the latest tourist bus introduced by Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC).
It's sleek, it's hep and it's doing the rounds of Bangalore daily, taking tourists on a tour of the city in eight hours.
Designed and built in-house by the corporation, it's air conditioned with plush interiors.
Rajkumar songs play out for the true Bangalore flavour. Even the tourist patter has a local touch.
A single trip costs Rs 250 a head and one will be able to book tickets online in a few weeks.
“I think everyone coming to Bangalore should take this tour. It is exciting to see Vidhana Soudha, high court, temples and caves,” says a tourist, Hemant Jain.
A BMTC driver, V Deenadayalu, chatters on, “Basavanagudi is a 300 years old story. It's all surrounding groundnut fields and day by day, the crops were disappearing.”
There are nearly five lakh people moving in to Bangalore everyday and the amount of floating population is much higher.
That is the segment that the Bangalore Rounds is trying to cash in on.
Considering most of the people are in the Information Technology (IT) industry, online ticketing to be introduced soon will certainly help in that quick weekend trip of the city's best spots.
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