Hyderabad - Part 4

Monsoon returned to Hyderabad today. Fortunately, we had planned mostly inside visits before our late afternoon flight back to Mumbai.

Salar Jung Museum

This museum houses the eclectic collection of Salar Jung (1889-1949), prime minister of the 7th Nizam (ruler) of Hyderabad.

Silver salt shakers. (Like I said, the collection is eclectic.) Lon says, the real question is how do they work in India? We can't keep salt from caking!

Among the really cool items in the museum is a collection of antique manuscripts -- mostly Arabic texts from the Middle Ages.

This is a detail from the bottom of a page in a copy of the Quran.

This is from a treatise on astronomy (not astrology, that was in a different book!)

Charminar

We then went to the Charminar so that Lon could see it and we could go up to the balcony level. For exterior photos, see the post, "Hyderabad - Part 1"

View to the east from the Charminar.

View to the south from the Charminar. In the haze at the end of the street is the Falaknuma Palace, the residential palace of the Nazims, now a hotel.

Street-level view of the same street as above.

In the Charminar.

Mumbai

Back in Mumbai at the LaLit Hotel. I'm wearing a kurta I bought a few weeks ago in Mumbai and a hat I bought yesterday at Golconda Fort. I've been looking for a sun hat -- I've got a sunburnt face for the 3rd weekend in a row, and it's still monsoon for another 2 or 3 weeks. But no one in India wears a hat, so it's been impossible to find one. Now I look like a proper English woman from the British Raj era (except for my sneakers!).