This weekend was marked with another wonderful ride. Me and my friend Srikanth S. Perinkulam wanted to go towards the old city of Hyderabad rather than the usual routes of Hussain Sagar – Necklace road and Osmania University. So as planned he started at 5.30 at Habsiguda and came down to my place in Nallakunta by 6.
We started off by 6.15 and had an uninterrupted ride till the Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station also called as Imlibun (It used to be a large planting of tamarind trees before some decades so the name) where we were interrupted by a traffic jam early in the morning because of the buses inflow into the bus station. We had no other option but to get down the bikes and take them on the footpaths till we crossed the bus station.
As we crossed PuranaPul, we could see the Old city slowly coming to life with many people near Afzalgunj bus terminus. We followed only the main roads and avoided bylanes completely. We turned towards Madina and before he knew Srikanth let out a gasp. The magnificent Charminar was before us in its grandeur. As we crossed the Kaman, it came into full view.
We rode past the Charminar and stopped at a distance to take a few pics. It was 6:50 AM. We loitered around a little and again started back again by 7:05. This time we took the Mozamjahi market route only to hopefully see if the famous Karachi Bakery is open yet but to find it closed was a heartbreak ( if you know how great the cookies taste, you would nod in acceptance).
We then turned towards Abids and had to struggle a lot to cross the up slope till LB stadium. We then crossed the flyover in a jiffy to liberty crossroads and another flyover in Narayanguda back to my place. The ride back took 30 minutes with one stop near the AP High court and another near LB stadium.
Not to mention the 6 Irani chai’s and 12 Osmania biscuits we gobbled down at a café after the ride, the complete ride was excellent. The weekend was spent in good spirits.
Route: Nallakunta – Barkathpura – Kacheguda – Chaderghat – MGBS – Nayapul – Afzalgunj – Madina – Charminar – Charminar Bus terminus – Charminar – Madina – Puranapul – AP High Court – Afzalgunj – Mozamjahi (MJ) Market – Abids – LB Stadium – Liberty Crossroads – Narayanguda – Barkathpura – Nallakunta.
Distance Covered – 17 Kms.
Time taken – 1:30 Terrain – Excellent roads. A few ups and downs complete with two flyovers.
Bikes: Hero Octane (Mine), Lumala (Srikanth’s)
Few pics below……
