It's like trying to build Rome in a day, but nevertheless, here are suggestions that you should be able to cover in 1 day, especially if you skip breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Okay, it's not that bad, but think the duration again.
It's a seemingly innocent lane, devoted entirely to all that is oh-so-essential to the process of dolling up. But then things have never been what they seem, and here, too, a drama plays itself out.
Where: To The Left Of Charminar, Charminar (3.4 km)
The mausolea of the 'Sultans of Golconda', and one of the most important tourist spots in the city. If you didn't come here on a school excursion, you probably didn't go to school.
If it hasn't been in your itinerary till now, forget the traffic bit and show some dogged zeal now. The doors are open, so come and partake of the Shahi experience of being a Hyderabadi royal.
Of all the people who've been there, perhaps the only one who's not totally impressed by the view from the Birla Mandir at night is perhaps the Lord Himself.
Modelled after the Queen's Necklace in Mumbai, the Necklace Road links Hyderabad to Secunderabad, and provides young lovers with an avenue (ha!) to express themselves.