Bangalore Travel Guide

Bugle Hill

The area known as Bugle Hill is home to the Bull Temple, which houses a black granite 16th-century statue of Shiva's sacred bull coated in fresh lashings of coconut oil. Less pleasant on the nose is the nearby Temple to Ganesh, that houses a statue of the deity made from 100 kilograms of butter. Every four years the statue is remade, and the (by that stage) rancid butter is distributed to devotees. Very few westerners join the queue for a portion.