Outside the walled garden....

So now that its daylight - its very obvious - that life within the walled gardens of the Royal Orchid - isn't typical of Bangalore.

From the rooftop pool - you can start to see the poor areas surrounding the hotel:



If you look closely - you'll see several families living in make-shift shacks in the middle of dirt fields. Wild dogs and cows roam freely amongst the streets and dwellings.



And the source of that awful stench? There's a inner-city river a block away from the hotel that truly does smell like death and raw sewage. Jeff took a photo of it -- it smelled so bad - I couldn't bring myself to take a picture so I'll have to get the image from Jeff's camera.