Ever wondered if there are any tourist places in your home town that YOU haven’t seen yet? Well I realized that yesterday.

One of my Managers, whose a Swedes, is going to India tomorrow for a Conference. And what’s more? he’s going to Hyderabad – my home town(may be city...).

So, as a true Hyderabadi, it was my tacit responsibility to suggest him some tourist places for which Hyderabad was famous for. He has only one evening to tour..so this made my job a bit tough coz I had to give him only a couple of places which are close enough to his place of stay (Novotel) as he cannot move along the entire breadth of the Hyderabad in one evening given the mind boggling traffic we have there.

I decided to give him a couple of famous cultural places those he could find only in my city. The entire process had one important by-product. It made me ralise that out of the most sought after tourist places, I hardly visited couple of them. For instance: I did not see Salar-Jung Museum till now. Same is the case with Taramati Baradari, Falaknuma Palace, climbing Char Minar,Chow Mohalla Complex to name a few..I visited Golkonda a few months before I arrived in Sweden, thanks to my Chennai friend who asked me to show that when he visited Hyderabad.

How many of us have visited all the famous tourist places in our own Home Town? We go to as many places as we can, even some not-so-important places when we go visit new places, then why do we neglect our own city? Well, I don’t say that every one is like that but, most of the people I know are.

People take their home towns for granted. So they don’t think about them in that perspective. Any thing which is perennial and is all yours doesn’t has that lustre. That’s true in every sense. Rather than lazing in home watching the idiot box which airs some traumatic soaps or listless reality shows, we can go visit some good places in our city or at least our neighbourhood.

I have decided that when I go back to India and Hyderabad, I am gonna cover all the remaining places that didn’t previously.