Localbitcoin is a good place to buy some. In my country we have Coin.ph. Where we can just transfer funds online to their bank account, and convert the case in their website to bitcoins. Check out google and see if there is a similar service.
yes we also using the same method, that is one of the most safest way of buying bitcoins, there are too many other ways of using it but still the most important and the most safest way is using localbitcoin.