Chilkur Balaji Temple
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Nearby attractions
Osman Sagar Gandipet
Hyderabad, Telangana
The 1920 Musi-river reservoir that saved Hyderabad from floods — 'Gandipet water' remains the city's pride, its bund a classic picnic drive.
Mrugavani National Park
Hyderabad, Telangana
A 1,200-acre pocket national park at Chilkur with safari vans through scrub forest of deer, boar and 100 bird species.
Himayat Sagar
Hyderabad, Telangana
Osman Sagar's twin on the Esi river (1927), named for the Nizam's heir — a long bund drive over quiet flood-control waters.
Taramati Baradari
Hyderabad, Telangana
The hilltop music pavilion where courtesan Taramati's song is said to have reached Golconda on the wind — now a cultural amphitheatre.
Qutb Shahi Tombs
Hyderabad, Telangana
The domed necropolis of Golconda's kings — seven grand mausoleums and mortuary baths in a restored garden of 100 monuments.
Golconda Fort
Hyderabad, Telangana
The diamond capital's granite crown — 11 km of walls climb a boulder hill through gates, armouries and water systems to the Baradari summit, where a hand-clap at the entrance echoes up to warn the king; the Koh-i-Noor and Hope both passed through these vaults.
Durgam Cheruvu
Hyderabad, Telangana
The 'secret lake' between granite bluffs at Hitec City, spanned by India's longest concrete cable-stayed bridge, lit purple by night.
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Botanical Garden
Hyderabad, Telangana
The Kotla Vijayabhaskara Reddy Botanical Garden at Kondapur — 274 acres of themed gardens, bamboo groves and lotus ponds by Hitec City.
Shilparamam
Hyderabad, Telangana
A 65-acre crafts village in Hitec City — artisan bazaars, a rural-Telangana museum village and night food courts under banyans.
Peddamma Thalli Temple
Hyderabad, Telangana
Jubilee Hills' powerful mother-goddess temple whose Bonalu processions turn the streets into a river of red and turmeric.
KBR National Park
Hyderabad, Telangana
390 acres of scrub forest in the middle of Banjara Hills — peacocks at dawn on the walking loop around Chiran Palace.
Nehru Zoological Park
Hyderabad, Telangana
One of Asia's great zoos — 380 acres with drive-through lion and tiger safaris, a nocturnal house and Indian rhino breeding.