Blondes on Tour

The hotel Laura booked was WELL nice!! Well outta my travel budget, but Laur kindly sorted out me out mosta the bill - safe as fuck :D.

I arrived first and settled maself in with a nice hot power shower. Laur arrived and we had a quick catch up before we went to see some of H'bad's sights!

Went to Charminnar in the Old town which was cool - good views of the bustling bazzars in the streets below. Lunch was ace in a local diner, toilet was not - have a lovely pic of a cockroach :P. Wherever Laur and I went in this city we drew LOADS of stares, 2 young blonde whities was a real rarity!

The afternoon was spent having a mooch around the shops, this was after we spent hours being driven around the whole city and back in a rickshaw looking for a particular shop, they proper took us for a ride on the meter and still never found it (we got conned a bit by the drivers in this city).

After dinner we went looking for a bar recommended int he Lonely Planet, again, mega rickshaw wind up - but we found one which we just went in anyway.

Twas at the top of a shopping mall, pretty posh too - ahem, we were offered "welcome" drinks tho... They were the most foul tasting things we had ever tried!! Well nearly vommed! Think salty, eggy and sour - unwelcome more like.

Day %

Took a rickshaw to see Golconda Fort in the morning - 200R there and back with 1.5hr waiting time, well good. Fort was pretty cool and it gave us ace views of H'bad. Again, Laur and I were attractions ourselves and had to stop the photos at one point or else we'd have never got round in time!! They're all nice about it tho, just well intrigued.

After a polluted rickshaw ride in the day (I found it quite stressful at one point, traffic, horns beeping and fumes everywhere), we went to see the standing statues of Buddha in Hussain Sagar Lake. Twas sunset too, so nuce setting and a chilled boat ride out after the mad rickshaw runs we'd had in the day.

Dinner was in a deserted restaurant at the top of this hotel over looking the city - twas a right little gem but bugger to find, well worth it tho. Laur treated us to a bottle of Indian vin rouge, kicked the evening off nicely :)

After a covert tipple of vodka back at the hotel we were well determined to find these bars, again, proper mission. We found them in the end and they were both closed for rennovation - in btwn finding them tho, every darned person we asked for directions, all pointed this way and that as if they knew what they were talking about, but they didn't. Frustrating to say the least, but meh.

Ended up at the same place as the ngith before and we headed straight for the club - deserted like the night before, save for a few deviant Indians. We managed to get ourselves pissed anyway...

Getting a rickshaw ride home tho was pretty impossible after midnight, so we got chatting to the police who had kicked everyone out of the bars and asked them to give us a lift somewhere. The officers were well up for it but we had to run it by the big cheese commander with the big belly, so we batted our eyelids n that and he agreed to take us to a rick standshaw. Ace, personal police escort like ;).

Will fill the rest in tomorrow, gettin shoulder ache and probably being eaten alive by mozzies...