WELCOME TO THE REAL INDIA!!!

Dear Bloggers,

Another day on tour for us today! After waking up at 6 o’clock, the first step of our trip was the most important enterprise of the IT-ITES sector all over the world: the Infosys. The travel by bus took us around 4 hours, but it didn’t matter because everyone was sleeping… At 11 am finally we reached the “Global Education center” of Infosys near Mysore: a monumental campus with tons of buildings, sports area, shops and restaurants. Just arrived we had an interesting briefing about what Infosys is.

Infosys Technologies Limited is a Information tecnology company founded in 1981 by Narayana Murthy. In 1982, Infosys opened an office in Bangalore which soon became its headquarters and nowadays it is one of India's largest IT companies with more than 100.000 professionals. It has several offices in twenty two countries and development centers in India, China, Austrlia, UK, Canada, Europe and Japan. After this brief presentation we had the best lunch of our journey, at least till now: fusilli, pennette, tomato sauce (not ketchup!), sweet fruits and black coffee too. For a while we almost thought not to be in India!

At 3.30 pm we leaved Infosys to reach the Mahraja’s Palace. This palace was built in 1920 by the British with the object to copy the original Indian architectural style. The expectations were not satisfied: We think that the British failed in their try and the palace seemed a mix of different styles, anyway two of us enjoyed riding an elephant for few rupees.

Seven days in India with no time to recover are starting to make the troops tired and stressed, so, after leaving the Mahraja’s Palace, the group decided to split. Some of us went back to XIME with our bus, while fourteen decided to stay in Mysore and then go back to Bangalore by train.

In these few hours we took the time to visit the temple of “Chamunda Devi” placed on a hill with a great view and a spicy market so small and quiet for this noisy and crowded country.

At 8.15 pm finally we catched the train to Bangalore. This was an amazing experience for the whole group! Indian trains are incredible: you can smell the food that goes up and down the railway carriage, you can feel the air that comes from the open doors and windows. This kind of experience make’s you touch the real India!
After arriving in Bangalore at 11.15 pm we had a short dinner and the usual Riscio’ took us home.

Now it’s really time to go, take care!

Nico