Escape to Hyderabad

I went to Hyderabad in mid July 2008. Didn't have much time to write up a story until today.

As mentioned before, this was a business trip. As usual, I took chances to look around especially the historical place. One of the trip was going to old city of hyderabad. Hyderabad was the last state taken by India. Prior to that, Hyderabad was an independent state ruled by Sultan Nizam. You can see a few amazing architecture, just like the taj mahal. I can conclusively say that ancient indian was full of tremendous architect.

This is Mecca Mosque. It's about 400 years mosque. The mosque stand still. But too bad, it is not properly maintained. You can see pigeon flying around.



I was trying to snap bright sky picture from Mecca Mosque. You can pigeon flying. cool huh! as if i am the professional photographer. This was accidentally taken. hehehe



This is Charminar. Its function during those day as the sight tower. Another superb architecure from far. When you get close to it, you can irresponsible people who didn't appreciate historical heritage; vandalism on the wall.



This is bangle street. Took this photo from charminar tower. Why it is called bangle street? the merchants along the street only sell bangle. Nothing else.


This is myself. From charminar, the background is the mecca mosque. Cool view



This photo also taken from Charminar. You can see so many traditional indian taxi. Got meter just like any other taxi. Note that in India, they honk a lot. Signal light (left and right) are unused at all. Every 30 seconds to 1 minute, they will honk each other. Reason is to make other driver alert that you are on road. Traffic light? There are but they don't really follow sometimes. But rarely you see major accident.



You can see thousand of people here. If you see this and assume this is really crowded, then you can imagine New Delhi is even crowder than this.

All in all, i can say i can enjoy the trip. but what really disappointing me is that, it's very hard to find souviner item i.e: t-shirt, key-chain, fridge magnet etc. I found one but it was enuff.