it was fun :)

8th april 2006, one of those amazing days that wud be etched in my memory for years to come...
reason being....a local city site seeing tour, with two o my frends nah...two o my real gud frends :)
its funny ,that the, company, can make so much of a difference to the otherwise mundane surroundings...that repeated visits to the same place [ any place...monument, restaurent,shoppin mall, a diff city ......]can seem boring or exciting , with the kind of people you go with!!!
like i said ,my friends and i boarded the bus at 8 am in the morning of 8/4/06...we took the conducted tour provided by our A.P Tourism[ hyderabad ,where we live!] department...
we started off with the Birla Mandir[ to invoke the almighty's blessings :) ]then a drive around the famed Charminar and Mecca masjid...then to the Nizam's pavilion, as its called... a museum showcasing the Nizam's enormous wealth... his wardrobe 240 feet long....[ apparently never repeated a single piece of his clothing ever!?!!]his walking sticks embedded in diamonds, emeralds and rubies, a shaving set cast in gold and lots more....not to 4get a spittoon, also cast in gold for his highness!?!?1
oops i 4got to mention , since we had gone on a "conducted" tour, i cannot 4get our "conductor" ...who kept us on our toes , literally... ordering " A.P" [ the name he used to address us all with] to get back within a stipulated time... must say a stickler 4 time..he almost left me and my friends to our fate cos we were 20 mins late.
well our next stop was at the Salar Jung Museum, where we witnessed the artistic italian creation..the Veiled Rebecca...simply out of the world....wouldnt want to dampen the beauty of this marble wonder, by talkin about it...its something to be witnessed in person!
phew am tired now[ of writing ;) ...surprisingly wasnt this dead yesterday :) ]
from the museum , we went to the Zoo[ had more of a photo session here...] , then stopped for lunch which was decent enough.
after refuelling ourselves, we went to the Golconda fort, only to return feeling absolutely famished!
well this was the fun part of it all.... it has 350 steps to take u up and 280 to bring u down!!!
my frends and i decided to go on our own...had fun during the ascent...went camera crazy...and crazy :)
reached the top...admired the scenic beauty and the architectural nuances....and then decided to descent using the apparent "royal" pathway...
some royalty it was... ..we had our hearts pounding for a good 15-20 mins as we walked in and out of the old time dungeons and durbars....also compounded with our conductor's threat of leavin us there, should we be late again!!!
well we finally made it in time....glad to c daylight and our bus :)
we then went to the Qutub Shahi Tombs, a supposed stop over converted to a drive through[ all of us were too dead ourselves, to go visit the dead!]
our penultimate stop was at some god forsaken shoppin area...
and the final stop was when my frends and i got off near mgroad...
treated ourselves to some delicious "chaat" and sugarcane juice :) :) [slurp!]
and then headed home around 630 pm....
phew! some day it was....a day when we were on the streets, literally :)
me stoppin now...am tired o typin...