All our pictures from Hyderabad can be seen in the following Flickr album:
Rose early but still managed to faff around over ablutions and breakfast.
Set off just before 9 to Golconda Fort (30 minutes drive outside town). Our guide is called Jonny Wilson (really!)
We do the fort (all 360 steps up and surely fewer steep ones down)with several parties of Indian school kids. Daisy dances with one of the school teachers on the way down.
Then on to the Qutb Shahi Tombs nearby. We explore one properly but Johnny denies this the other six or seven.
Next stop, the Charminar palace complex. Then on to the nearby Makkah Masjid – a vast mosque.
Then around the Laad Bazaar area – bought some citrus squeezer is And bangles from Michael and John’s girls.
Next stop, the Salar Jung museum which didn’t do all that much for us, although I liked the music o’clock at 3 pm.
Next a bit of a wild goose chase for the cricket stadium but eventually got in to the poor old ruin (Lal Bahadur Stadium).
Final stop, a craft shop that did little/nothing for us. So, home to rest/change for dinner at the Falaknuma Palace.
Before dinner we have cocktails in the Gol Bungalow.
We tried a lamb (ghost) starter with thin medallions of amazing tenderised lamb. Plus a trio of haleems, veg, chicken and lamb. Main course a different chicken murgh with coconut served with bread and some rice. Absolutely delicious.
Driver Pasha takes us home – excitedly discussing cricket.
Romantic evening in the extreme!