🏞️ Lake📍 Nature📍 Picnic

Shamirpet Lake & Deer Park

Shamirpet, Telangana, India

4.1 (0)

Overview

A Nizam-era lake in deccan boulder country north of the city, beside a blackbuck deer park — Hyderabad's quick countryside escape.

Why visit: Boulder-and-water Deccan scenery 25 km from Secunderabad.

Things to do

›Lakeside sunset
›Blackbuck park
›Boulder photography

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Travel Information

Best time

Oct–Feb

Entry fee

Deer park ~₹20

Est. budget

₹200–500

Duration

Half day

Nearby attractions

Within

9.3 km

📍 Temple

4.3

Keesaragutta Temple

Keesara, Telangana

A hilltop Ramalingeshwara shrine where Rama is said to have installed the linga — hundreds of scattered lingas dot the boulder slopes.

Oct–Feb; Shivratri2–3 hrsExplore

14.7 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Dargah

4.3

Moula Ali Dargah

Hyderabad, Telangana

A 500-step climb to the Qutb Shahi dargah on Moula Ali rock — one of Hyderabad's oldest sacred hills with vast city views.

Oct–Feb2 hrsExplore

20 km

📍 Temple

4.3

Wargal Saraswati Temple

Siddipet, Telangana

The 'second Basar' — a hillock shrine of the goddess of learning near Hyderabad where children's Akshara ceremonies fill weekend mornings.

Year-round; Vasant Panchami2 hrsExplore

20.2 km

💎 Hidden Gem📍 Mosque

4.2

Spanish Mosque Begumpet

Hyderabad, Telangana

The Paigah's Moorish-style Jama Masjid of 1906 — cathedral-like spires unlike any other mosque in India, inspired by Córdoba.

Oct–Feb (outside prayers)30 min – 1 hrExplore

20.8 km

📍 Heritage

4.4

Osmania University Arts College

Hyderabad, Telangana

The 1939 pink-granite masterpiece blending Indo-Saracenic and Kakatiya motifs — the most beautiful university building in India.

Oct–Feb1 hrExplore

21.8 km

🏞️ Lake

4.4

Hussain Sagar & Buddha Statue

Hyderabad, Telangana

The heart-shaped 16th-century lake joining Hyderabad and Secunderabad, with the world's tallest monolithic Buddha (58 ft) on its island rock.

Oct–Feb (evenings)2–3 hrsExplore

23 km

📍 Garden

4.1

NTR Gardens

Hyderabad, Telangana

A 36-acre landscaped garden by Hussain Sagar with a machan tree, Japanese garden, toy train and the NTR memorial.

Oct–Feb1–2 hrsExplore

23.1 km

📍 Park

4.1

Lumbini Park

Hyderabad, Telangana

The lakeside park at Hussain Sagar's south gate — musical fountains, a laser show on water screens and the Buddha ferry jetty.

Oct–Feb (evenings)2 hrsExplore

23.7 km

📍 Temple

4.6

Birla Mandir Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Telangana

A white Rajasthani-marble Venkateswara temple on Naubath Pahad, its terraces serving the city's best free skyline view.

Oct–Feb (evenings)1–2 hrsExplore

23.7 km

📍 Museum

4.3

B.M. Birla Science Centre & Planetarium

Hyderabad, Telangana

Hyderabad's science hub beside Birla Mandir — planetarium dome shows, dinosaurium with a real sauropod fossil, and interactive halls.

Year-round2–3 hrsExplore

24.4 km

📍 Park

4.4

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.

Year-round (mornings)1–2 hrsExplore

24.7 km

📍 Temple

4.4

ISKCON Temple Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Telangana

The Hare Krishna centre at Abids with golden Radha-Madanmohan deities, Sunday feasts and Janmashtami crowds in lakhs.

Year-round; Janmashtami1–2 hrsExplore