Hyderabad Trip

Author: Sanjay

One good decision which Daddas took is to visit "Hyderabad - Land of Nizams" With lots of Halla gulla in participation, three of us (Raghu, Santu and T man) could make to the trip. The trip was schedule from 24th January 2004 (Friday) to 26th January 2004 (Monday). The weather was cloudy which was ideal for the tour.



Day1:

Our day started with “Salar Jung Museum”. This museum is famous for largest one man collection in our country. This is named after Mir Yousuf Ali Khan popularly known as Salar Jung III who contributed most of his collection. The museum was quite big and it took almost 3 hours to see all the displayed items. The best one I could remember was of two sided statue and western lamp shades. This museum is also famous for the "Round Clock" (which was not looking round), in which every one hour a poppet comes up and rings a bell. We meet T Man at the Round Clock who had gone to his uncle house soon after arrival to Kachiguda.



It was almost 1.00 PM we headed straight to Charminar. Charminar which means four Pillar which was built as Victory symbol by the Quli Qutub Shah in 16th century. We took some snaps at ground and top floor of the monument. We had a nice view of the old city which was giving a spectacular Arial view. We came out from Charminar at around 2.30 PM and we directly to directly to “Parvez”, No. 1 Non-Veg Restaurant in Hyderabad. This restaurant is famous for Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani and we had the same and enjoyed delicious food. For desert we had "Kurbani- Ka- Meetha", which was ultimate and felt like heaven food (Ravi Darling, you missed it like ANYTHING, Man!!!!!).



After lunch we headed to Golconda Fort. It was almost one hour drive from the city. We reached the fort at 4.30 PM and we hired Guide to explain the fort and its history. This fort is famous for its olden day’s communication where the clap can be heard at the top at the fort when clapped at the main entrance gate. The king used this technique to secure the fort and the palace. The guide narrated us the history of the fort. The history of Hyderabad can be described in four words i.e BHAGYA WATI --> HYDER BEAGUM, BHAGYA NAGAR --> HYDERABAD!!!!!!!!!!

It was 7.30 PM when we came out from Golconda fort and we headed strait to home where Raghu had plans to buy Pearl for his Mom. We went to “Elite Pearl shop” where Raghu and I bought pearl set to our Mom and Santu bought it for Madhu. Then we went to "Paradise Restaurant", No. 5 restaurant for Chicken Biryani. We again ate the Hyderabadi Biryani and "Kurbhani ka Meetha" too.


Day 2:



The second day was programmed to Ramoji Film City. We started our day at 7.30 AM from “Yatri Nivas” where we had purchased the transportation and entry ticket to visit Ramoji Film city. The bus started at 8.15 AM and our first stop was at Sai Temple. The uniqueness of this Sai temple is that the idol is carved similar to the idol of Shirdi’s Sai Baba temple. It was a 1/2 an hour break and then we moved to Ramoji film city. The Ramoji film city is one of the world's largest, most comprehensive and professionally planned film production centers. Professional Designers, Landscapists and Architects have worked on this vast 2000 acres complex of Studios, Gardens, Hotels, Multi-storied buildings and special structures of all kinds. Filmmaker can shoot Indian village, or recreate a London Street or any other desired location all at Ramoji Film City. We reached the film city at around 9.30 AM we were dropped at "Eureka" (starting point of film city). At this junction we get Ramoji’s buses to all other locations.
In Ramoji, we visited Brundavan garden, Mughal garden, Tea Garden, London Street, Village, Japanese garden and not to forget Dadajin. The studio is so vast and beautiful that a day is not sufficient to explore the film city. We had our bus waiting at 4.30 PM and we reached Secundrabad at 6.30 PM. Then we then straight to Punna Reddy's Sweet show room. We bought sweets worth Rs. 600/- went home. For dinner we went to a pub near to my room where we had two bottle of chilled ice beers each and came back home.



Day 3:

Our final day started first by visiting Birla Venkateshwara temple. This temple is constructed white Rajasthani marble at rocky hills which was overlooking the Hussain Sagar Lake. We had the darshan of Lord Vishnu we moved on to our next destination which was Lumbini Park.



Lumbini Park is situated at bank of Hussain Sagar. This park is famous for Sunset view of the lake, musical fountain show, Speed Boat, Para Sailing and Ship ride. As it was morning we had the option to select between Speed Boat, Para Sailing and Ship Ride. We opted for speed boat which was absolutely thrilling 1/2 hour ride from one end of Hussain Sagar to other end. We had close view of idol of Buddha which was placed at the center of the lake.



Our next destination was at Movie at IMAX Theater. This theater was at Prasad’s multi complex which was built by L V Prasad, former producer/director in Telugu film industry. The complex contains 5 Movie Theatres, an IMAX Theatre, Shopping, food court and restaurants. In India there is only one IMAX Theater and specialty of this theater is that it gives 3D effect without any 3D spectacle, 70 MM screen and 12,000 Watts music. We had booked the tickets for “Everest” movie and the movie was absolutely breath taking has touched our senses by brings all images to life like reality. This movie experience took our breath away...literally!!!!!



The movie was short & sweet and we came out of theater at 3.00 PM and went straight to Aditya Andra Mess where we had traditional spicy Andra meals with Pappu, Brinjal Pickle and other side dishes. After our lunch we headed to our last destination to Karachi bakery. This bakery is famous for its bakery products especially Cookies from past 60 years. We bought Biscuits and headed straight to old city (i.e. Near Charminar) for closer look of Bazaar and the monument again. It was 5 KM stretch for Karachi bakery to Charminar and we decide to walk through the old city. We reached Charminar and spent almost 1/2 an hour there and had fresh Sugarcane juice to regain our energy.



As all good things come to an end out trip was also over. Dadda's had to catch Bangalore train and none of us was in mood to go back to mechanical. This trip relaxed us from our hectic life and helped us to regain our energy back.

We reached Kachiguda station at 5.30 PM and left the city of Nizam with good memories behind.






From: raghunandan.keshava@accenture.com
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:33 AM
To: d_men@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [d_men] Hyderbad Trip Travelogue


On the sidelines;
Lo magney Sanjay, you always get it wrong, its Pulla Reddy. Pure Ghee
Sweets.(dont ever forget to mention the 3 words!!)
Some info; The Quli qutub shahis were 9 kings in all and had 62 wives and
362 daughters?all daughters!!! Randy guys really!!!
Qubani ka meetha is an ultimate dessert that we had..i think 4 times.
For 2 days we had Chicken biryaani for lunch and dinner. With every burp
and fart we felt the flavor of chicken rising in us. Consequently,
Santhosh_gr made a lot of visits to the kakka room in sanjay's place. He
had also brought a SAP book to read while downloading his pile.
We had 2 sisters for company while visiting Ramoji city. Saree clad, sexy
sisters, i would call them. They in turn had a guy for their company. It
looked like he had married one of them. We saw them frequently throughout
the day in the film city.
Dont forget to visit Dadajinn when you visit hyderabad. Everest base camp
is a goal now.
Not to forget the no. of paans that we ate and no. of nimkai sodas in the
streets of hyderabad. It was awesome.
Finally, the yenne party was good as always?this time around sanjay was in
full spirits.

Dadajinn man, your contribution due. Might as well Tekula man's tales. ;-)