Hyderabad

Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana, and the fourth most populous city in India. The city is often known by the sobriquet The City of Pearls, and was once a global center of the diamond and pearls trade. More recently, the city has emerged as a major global center for the information technology (IT) and biopharmaceutical industries. The city is home to the Telugu Film Industry, known popularly as Tollywood, and also to many historical sites, making it a regular tourist hotspot. Known for its rich history and culture with monuments, mosques, temples, a rich and varied heritage in arts, crafts and dance, Hyderabad was the former seat of the extremely wealthy Nizams. The primary base for SpiceJet's fleet of Bombardier Dash 8s, Hyderabad connects to several destinations from Hyderabad.

Eating Out!

With its many restaurants, pubs, cafes and bars, Hyderabad offers a diverse range of dining choices, from the Hyderabadi style with its strong Mughalai influence, to a pure Telangana cuisine - hot and spicy. In addition, the city's main shopping areas are crowded with sweet shops offering a mind-boggling variety of sweet and snacks. Taj Krishna and ITC Kakatiya Sheraton offer an ambience that’s regal, majestic and yet contemporary for all tourists.

SpiceJet Recommendations!

Charminar; Golconda Fort; Salar Jung Museum; Birla Mandir; Mecca Masjid; Hussain Sagar Lake; Ramoji Film City.

Shopping

Hyderabad offers a unique shopping experience, from the traditional pearl or diamond shopping (especially around the Charminar and Laad Bazaar area) that the city has always been famous for, to popular arts and crafts, handlooms, carpets and textile. The Basheerbagh area of Hyderabad is considered the city's main shopping district for leather, textiles and handicrafts. Mahatma Gandhi Road in the Secunderabad area is home to a string of trendy boutiques and clothing emporiums.

Charminar
The Charminar is as much the signature of Hyderabad as the Taj Mahal is of Agra or the Eiffel Tower is of Paris. Built in 1591 by Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah as a charm to ward off a deadly epidemic raging at that time, the Charminar has 45 prayer spaces and a mosque. The monument is illuminated in the evenings and a pedestrianisation project around the monument is under implementation.
Mecca Masjid
A two hundred yards southwest of the Charminar is the Mecca Masjid, so named because the bricks were brought from Mecca to build the central arch. The Qutb Shahis never finished the building of the mosque, which was completed by Aurangzeb in 1694.
Golconda Fort
Golconda is one of the famous forts of India. The name originates from the Telugu words “Golla Konda” meaning “Shepherd’s Hill”. The origins of the fort can be traced back to the Yadava dynasty of Deogiri and the Kakatiyas of Warangal. Golconda was originally a mud fort, which passed to the Bahmani dynasty and later to the Qutb Shahis, who held it from 1518 to 1687 A.D. The first three Qutb Shahi kings rebuilt Golconda, over a span of 62 years. The fort is famous for its acoustics, palaces, ingenious water supply system and the famous Fateh Rahben gun, one of the cannons used in the last siege of Golconda by Aurangzeb, to whom the fort ultimately fell.
Salar Jung Museum
This museum houses one of the biggest one-man collections of antiques of the world by Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III. The objects d’art include Persian carpets, Moghal miniatures, Chinese porcelain, Japanese lacquerware, famous statues including the Veiled Rebecca and Marguerite and Mephistopheles, a superb collection of jade, daggers belonging to Queen Noor Jahan and the Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb’s sword and many other fabulous items.
Birla Mandir
This white marble temple of Lord Venkateshwara floats on the city skyline, on Kala Pahad. The idol in the temple is a replica of the one at Tirumala Tirupati.
HussainSagar Lake
Excavated in 1562 A.D. by Hussain Shah Wali during the time of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah, the lake has a promenade that is a busy thoroughfare today. Boating and water sports are a regular feature in the Hussainsagar. One of the World’s tallest monolithic statues of the Buddha stands on the ‘Rock of Gibraltar’, in the middle of the lake. Added to all these, AP Tourism has additional boating facilities like speed boats, motor boats, 48 seater launch etc. Starlit dinner on-board and private parties also can be arranged on the Launch.