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Hyderabad Slideshow
Hyderabad
Travel Blogs from Hyderabad, India
Tanya's Going Away
... (Rishikesh, Jaipur, Agra and the Taj Mahal, Dehli, Sri Lanka). As a small token of appreciation, a group of our Hyderabad friends took Tanya out to dinner at Addiction restaurant. Afterwards we headed over to VJ's penthouse for some music, ...
Thanksgiving in Hyderabad (with Turkey!)
Just a entry to show you some pictures from our company thankgiving dinner that our CEO put on for us expats in Hyderabad who were desperately craving turkey and football on Thanksgiving day. One of the 5 star hotels in town (the Ista) put on an ...
First Few Days in the Apartment/Construction Zone
... AC units ended up being a huge pain in the ass. Let me first tell you that drywall isn't used in India...the interior walls of most building are solid concrete and all the wiring is done within the concrete during construction. ...
Wonderful Family
... and their 2 boys Michael and Gabriel. It is through our relationship with them over the last 15 months that we came to choose Hyderabad as the place where we would live and work. Through Johnson they are in the process of registering a not-for-profit ...
Big India Wedding
... invite from my landlord to his son's wedding. Two things for you to know...#1) anyone who owns land in Hyderabad (like my landlord) is uber rich...#2) India weddings are known for being huge and over the top. I really didn't want to head all the ...
Ramoji Film City - The Capital of Tollywood
... studio (as certified by the Guiness Book of World Records...seriously). Ramoji Film Studios about 40 kilometers southwest of Hyderabad and is the home to the bustling Tollywood industry (not to be confused with Bollywood). For those that ...
Slum Kid Goodie Bags
... , watchman and many others, we organized a little surprise for the children in my neighborhood slum. Pretty much every area in India...even the richest of neighborhoods will have a neighborhood slum located somewhere close by. I live in an area ...
Back In India - Good Times, Fashion Shows & Golf?
... shows). The next morning I got up early (free of hangover) and met some coworkers for a round of golf at Hyderabad's newest golf course...Boulder Hills. It's an absolutely beautiful club and if I were staying in Hyderabad for another year ...
Yes! We are still alive
... , the remainder are all unpolished marble, including the balconies. Who would have thought! Marble is very common as a building material in India. The layout of the block is similar to a town house in Australia, so no garden, all paved, small outside ...
TX Amigo in HYD, VJ's Bday & Last Night for Oops
... office building into a party room and it was indeed a party with the standard cast of characters. On Ruben's last night in Hyderabad, I drug him to F Bar to meet Nick and Bec, then the Sheraton to hear Ania and Maria sing their songs. Good to ...
Jethro Tull Concert in Hyderabad
... 's favorite and I was surprised how much I like it as well. It was a great night and something different for Hyderabad for sure. Thanks Roshni for the tickets!!! Sorry the pics are a little dark....but I've also uploaded some videos ...
Baal Dan Kids Day in Hyderabad
... day of activities and fun for over 100 children at the Child Haven Orphanage located on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The activities included arts and craft activities, singing, dancing, a full cricket match, soccer and having ...
World Badmitton Championships in H'bad
... which caused the entire British team to bail along with a couple Austrians (wusses...all of them). Despite the security concerns, Hyderabad did a great job and everything went off without a hitch. The Chinese won pretty much everything and all the ...
Return to Hyderabad and the Discovery of Millets
... of my previous bondage, and then laid on it, for several hours. With the unattached possibility of my time in Hyderabad stretched out before me, I fell into deep satisfying sleep. The next day Dr. Kaza reminded me about a meditation course that he ...
The darkest hour is just before the dawn ...
Just when I was starting to despair about India ... I arrived at Hyderabad, and was pleasantly surprised by this lovely city. To give you some idea of the hell state I was in on arrival, I had just done an overnight train trip from Hospet (better named ...
Hyderabad Wedding
With a friend (Tanya) from the States visiting, we got invited last minute by one of my neighbors to attend what I thought was "her" daughters wedding. My neighbor (Pushpama) and her husband live on the same floor as me in my apartment ...
Stop #54
... . We were able to hear about a disturbing way of life....the people who live on the streets in India. India is a country that is very overpopulated. Hyderabad is the 6th largest city in the country of India. It alone has over 4 million inhabitants. While ...
Week One and Two In India at the Taj Krishna
... night was dinner at Ashish and Sonia's beautiful apartment at Stone Valley...it probably is one of the nicest apartments in Hyderabad. Four bedrooms, marble floors, modern kitchen, intricate wood-work and great views. Dinner was great as was ...
My Look See Visit to Hyderabad
... a slightly downhill angle...weird. My departure time from Dallas was around 4PM on Tuesday...my expected arrival time into Hyderabad was around midnight Wednesday night. With that in mind I make the brilliant decision to try and ...
Happy Diwali Hyderabad!
... a holiday in India as Christmas is in the States. You can read more about it here...but for most families in India, the holiday also involves lighting some oil lamps around the house which signifies victory of good over the evil within an ...
Last two weeks in the Taj
Week three was pretty tame....nothing much to report from a work perspective. Work went by pretty quickly...but things are starting to pick up a bit. More meetings, conference calls, etc. Also as I'm taking over this new apartment ...
Bijapur & Hyderabad
... . Laad bazaar I only ran though. Within several hours I was done and by auto-rickshaw transferred to the train station. Hyderabad seems to have more interesting highlights, but spread out around the town, whose size isn’t insignificant. It’s ...
Shopping!
... the fair grounds. The cabs arrived and parked in a large lot across the street from the fair. Crossing the street in India is like a giant, real life game of Frogger. It is an intense and terrifying experience. We stood on the curb, ...
Stress Buster : Hyd - M P, Pit stop resort !!
... here I am, Hope you enjoy reading the blog as much as I did exploring every part of my trip … When we started from Hyderabad it was already dark and we felt we should for sure cover most of our journey in night to avoid the daylight traffic, tried ...
Around Town
Today we spend a ridiculously long day out around the town in Hyderabad. India is an impossibly old country and the history here is rich. Within the city there are historic monuments and sites that are ancient and beautiful. This is the India you ...
I'm a classy gal
... -less. Social Stratification This is my only direct enrollment class, the rest of them are developed specifically for the Study in India Program kids. This class has actual Indian students in it! The title pretty much sums up the content of the class, we ...
The British Residency and the Nizam Museum
A successful tour of the magnificent British Residency built in 1803 in Hyderabad by James Kirkpatrick, the central character of the book White Mughals. The vast ballroom looks as if nothing has been altered since Kirkpatrick died in 1805. Well, ...
Onward to Kolkata
... and colourful homes, with microwave towers galore. EXPLORE's tailor-made folks have had us met at the station in Chennai, Hyderabad, and now Kolkata. When two seniors are travelling alone, one has fears of no one showing up. It's so reassuring ...
Getting Oriented
... us what to expect. After all of the power-point lectures were done with we went on a bus tour of the campus. Central Hyderabad University is a massive school that has over 2,000 acres of land. There are roving packs of wild dogs (including a pack ...