Red Fox Hotel, HITEC City, Hyderabad

This is one of the most advanced planetariums ever erected on Indian soil. It is regularly upgraded and supplied with the most trendy and latest equipments to keep pace with modern times. It is also metamorphosing into a center for studying astronomy. It is 15 kms away from the hotel.

Salar Jung Museum is one of the most visited places in the city. With a collection of fine art, tapestries, jade artifacts, weaponry and sculpture, it is worth seeing. Kasu Brahmanda Reddy National Park is a nature park situated near Jubilee Hills. It is 25 kms away from the hotel.

In 1562,Ibrahim Qutb Shah built Hussain Sagar Lake, a large artificial lake in 1562 AD and it is the connecting point of the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. In the lake on an island there is a larger-than-life size statue of the Buddha. Boats take tourists across the lake to the island, on which the statue rests. It is 19 kms away from the hotel.

Then there is the Mecca Masjid, one of the largest mosques in India, located just nearby the Charminar. It is 18 kms away from the hotel.

The last Nizam of Hyderabad built the Falaknuma Palace, which housed the most expensive art objects, tapestries and carpets, in addition to the largest single-man collection of diamonds. Here the Nizam had received their Majesties, the late King George V and King Edward VIII of England. It is 25 kms away from the hotel.

Another tourist attraction here is the Golconda Fort, a 16th century fortress situated on the western outskirts of Hyderabad city. Known for its collection of diamonds, it is said that the famous Kohinoor originally belonged to Golconda. It is 15 kms away from the hotel.

Charminar, the hub of the city, has four wide roads radiating in the four cardinal directions. The four minarets command the landscape for miles.The projected canopy, ornamental brackets and decoration in stucco plaster add graceful elegance to the structure. On the upper courtyard, a screen of arches topped by a row of square jali or water screens lends a fragile charm to the sturdy appearance of the Charminar. This courtyard was used as a school and for prayers from the nearby mosque. The minarets, their domed finials rising from their lotus-leaves cushion, rise to 180 feet from the ground. It is 20 kms away from the hotel.