Day Twenty Nine 15-11-10

A day of tourism again. For the day we rented a car with driver. He brought us to the following places:
- Salarjung Museum
- Seven tombs
- Fort Golconda
we also planned to go to the zoo, but unfortunately that one was closed on mondays.

From the museum I wasn't really impressed. It seems to me that most of the museums here offer the same ind of things. That is sculptures out of stone, marble, ivory, brass and other precious materials and some paintings which are not really concerverd. However, the museum had something interesting. The whole collection what was exposed in the museum, belonged to one collector called Salar Jung. There where as well some saris that has been made with golden threads and his bed together with other furniture.
After two hours in there we went to the zoo what turned out to be closed. Instead we went to the seven tombs. This is basically a graveyard, for important people. The designer of Charminar and rest of the city (Quli Qutub Shah)
We went there as well on an illegal stair to the top of one of the mosques that was also there.
I also learned something about indian culture again. Namely, when people put up a sign, the Indians do the opposite. So as well with a water well. The sign said that it is dangerous to swim in the well and we found 5 lads swimming in it. The same happens with parking by the way. When it says no parking, you always find a couple doing it. Same counts for spitting (Indian men tent to spit a lot due to the Bettle leaf, some kind of leave that taste nice in the beginning and then goes horrible, for me) because of the aftertaste they probably want to spit or something.

Finally we went to Fort Golconda. There I was being bugged by 4 different guides who wanted to show me around. I was not interested at that at the time because my mind was already full of all the other impressions that I had in other places. I just wanted to walk around a bit and enjoy the Fort. The guys kept on bugging me or a long time. Once I finally got rid of them i was a bit annoyed about the fact that does guys don't back down. However I didn't have much time to be grumpy because a bunch of Indian guys wanted to take a picture with me. For some reason a lot of Indian people want to go with me on the photo. Because they are so incredibly friendly all the time, it cheers me up. So after some shots and some talking, we went climbing up to the fort which was a long way (you will see in the pics) Once up, the view was amazing and we could see the complete city of Hyderabad. After sunset we headed back down and back to the hotel.

Tomorrow at 6am we will be in the train to Agra where we will visit the Taj Mahal.



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