Travelogue around Asia Pacific

Hyderabad - Today, we had our breakfast on the Executive floor on the 8th floor - spread is not as wide as downstairs but I still had my delicious mangoes.  One of the chosen by the waiter and it was really sweet.  I was told that the best season for mangoes are in the months of April to June.   Prior to that the mangoes are sour. This time our taxi arrived on time and we reach our customer destination a bit late as the taxi driver was not sure where this Ascendas IT park was.  Completed the meeting and decided to use the same taxi driver to bring us to Charminar.  Booking another taxi is a lot of hassle and takes a long time for the taxi to arrive. The town around Charminar was crowded with lots of people as it is the focal point for people to buys their groceries and stuff.   The Charminar was build by Mohammed Quli Qutub Shah in 1591, built in granite, lime, mortar and around which the state of Hyderabad sprung up. Charminar Charminar i...

Hyderabad - We booked the taxi yesterday night to pick us up at 9am for a meeting at 10am.   I had another round of sumptuous breakfast but no taxi came to pick us up at 9am - so Lesley called them and was told that the taxi broke down and a new taxi is going to pick us at 9.20am but instead came at 9.30am.  We reach our destination at 10:30am - rush up and apologize profusely to our customers.  Along the way - there was a Westin Hotel in the Hi-Tech Park location which we could stay instead of travelling 1hr to and fro.   On the way back to the Hotel, the taxi driver took us on a scenic ride along Necklace Road with runs around the Lake that is in the heart of Hyderabad called Hussain Sagar.   This Lake was built by Hazrat Hussain Shah Wali in 1562, during the rule of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah. It was a lake of 24 square kilometres built on a tributary of the River Musi to meet the water and irrigation needs of the city. There is a large ...

Hyderabad - Woke up by the morning call @ 6am as we need to leave the hotel at 8am to reach our customer at 9am.   Met Lesley @ 7am downstairs and I had a sumptuous breakfast of Masala Dosai, Dili, Wada, Indian Pizza, 2 fried eggs, guava juice and 2 Indian mangoes.  The Indian mangoes are sold quite expensive in Singapore and I just got to try them here - 2 big Indian mangoes but one of them taste like it was pluck unripe off the tree as it was not that sweet. Approached the front desk to book a taxi and was advised to book a Hotel taxi - which cost an over-priced amount of 1,600Rp as we found out when we booked a local taxi on the way back that cost us 300Rp - that is day-light robbery. We had our lunch at the customer canteen that caters to their 1,000 employees - they had North and South Indian food and I chose their Northern Indian dishes.  Both Lesley and I decided to rest at the Executive Club on the 8th ...