Lots of ruins

A short stop in Hyderabad

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April 5th 2005
Hyderabad, a city that is rarely on the tourist trail - and today we discovered why. The main reason we were in Hyderabad was because it was a stopover on the way to our next major destination Aurangabad. Nevertheless, we thought we'd look around. To our surprise, there was a really cool sounding place called Ramoji Film Studios - a pseudo Universal Studios except based around Bollywood (the ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more