A 16th-century lake between Hyderabad and Secunderabad, with an 18-metre monolithic Buddha on a rock in the middle.
Boats leave from Lumbini Park. The water quality is poor — this is a skyline-and-sunset trip, not a nature one.
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One man's collection, and it is enormous: 40,000 objects from Mughal daggers to a Veiled Rebecca marble…
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The four-minaret gateway of 1591 that anchors the old city, built to mark the end of a plague and now…
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The lane running west from Charminar, lined with lac bangle shops, pearls, wedding wear and perfume…
One of India's largest mosques, begun in 1614, with bricks from Mecca set above the central arch and…