Saturday 27th February 2010 - Local Hyderabad Tour with places of great historical interest. A tour between 9 AM to 6 PM was the plan - we got back by 8 pm as these "white guys" have to be chased down for pictures as soon as they are released from the tour bus ... we are the local exhibition immediately. Of course we like being the center of attention, so we pose and we think to be published on the web quite often now :-)
Pre Lunch: Salar Jung Museum/Charminar/Chowpal Palace. This really was a wonderful experience. The Salar Jung museum was not open due to a several celebrations in the city, so we went to visit a temple instead. All locals were running bye the temple as well to do their prayers and worshipping. Charminar was madness; a muslim celebration with green / white flags took place and we just mingled in (and did our poses for the shots again). We went up a tour via very small steps but as high as my knee: it felt like a kid getting up the stairs but then in the dark by lack of lighting. Then this view and soundings:
And Chowpal Palace: we could almost say like any other palace you may visit, but the size .... 6 buildings, numerous cars; an old Harley; a British clock that still works and we got to see the special built-in theater when the electronic curtains went up to announce noon.
Lunch : We went to the famous Paradise restaurant in Secunderabad ... on the other side of the lake. It took a while to get here as we got stuck in traffic for the first time -it is busy but normally keeps on moving-. We already had heard so many times of "the Paradis" (take-out version is next door to our hotel: that already was a good experience), but it was worth it.
Post Lunch: Qutb Shahi Tombs/ Golconda Fort. We got to see the 7 tombs of the Hyderabad kings. The tombs are located on a hill, and are not crowded by people as Hinduism actually does not worship or honour the death. We only got to see the outside of the tombs, but impressive they are. A Rajestan (New Delhi area) family wanted to be photographed with us again, and we told them in 2 weeks time we plan to be in their province for the weekend. This lead to an invite, which we per Indian habit vaguely accepted -no worry, we don't have to show up, we even did not exchange addresses.
See the Saturday Feb 27 photo-album
28th February 2010 - Nagarjuna Sagar Tour - 165 KM from Hyderabad and is very scenically situated on the River Krishna. A tour to take place between 7 AM to 9 PM. Early breakfast or no breakfast ... I took the risk to get down by 7 am to grab a bite and not entirely surprisingly a phonecall came in to inform us of a delay in departure as the bus was not yet ready; I had 45 mins for breakfast :-) Upon departure a person can sleep well on a full stomach and it actually is a good means to kill time for the 3 hour busride :-)
Pre Lunch: We saw the Nagarjuna Dam on the way. All sand and mud is black and the dam is pretty lenthgy. We arrived in another town to get tickets by 11 am; to do local site seeing in a "stone by stone" transferred amphitheater with a magnificent view on lake Krishna. Very nice and quite, and refreshing to be able to breath non-polluted air for a change. The tour bus stopped for lunch nearby the boating area, where we only had 30 mins to get food before the boat would leave. Ordering already took 15 mins, and then we read the small font that each meal takes 20 mins to be ready ... no lunch for us we thought.
Post Lunch: But hey, the 30 mins appeared to be 45 mins ++ (Indian time) so we had some and were the last ones to get onto the boat that was ready to leave but not with 10 people missing ...... Nagarjuna Sagar Boating took us to the Buddha datu Museum. A museum totally dedicated to old Buddhas and their graves. After some speedwalking across the island, we returned at the boat to for the 45 min return trip. "Grandpa" Michel was covered with little kids and we chatted a bit with them. Dawn and Enric were more in front of the boat and were involved in conversations with locals. When getting off the boat, a local tv station was present to interview these strange white people, so John and I gave a few sentences. It will be aired twice on Monday: 13 and 17 pm.
The topping of the day was the Ettipothala waterfall at sunset. The fool moon arose, the waterfall was ligthed and next to a peoples attack for pics with us, the musquito attack started. Luckily I had brought my repellent so I was safe. A quick bite at local resto and upon departure the Holi fesitval got started: a festival of colours where the faces get coloured... of course we were the chosen victims :-) we all got pink faces.
See the Sunday Feb 28 photo-album
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