heritagehyderabad

It was a long time since we had been to a heritage place so yesterday me n shoaib headed to malakpet for raymond's tomb and asmangadh palace.i read abt these in some
websites and decided to check it out.i located the locations in google maps.we got
down at malakpet and decided to walk from there.after some confused wanderings
we located a signboard of A.P.tourism directing towards raymond's tomb.we took the
smaller bylane branching off from the malakpet dilsukhbagar road,near the tv tower.
from there we followed the google maps directions.soon,while walking, i saw among
the newer buildings, an old yellowish building with a distinct architecture.as soon as i saw it, i deduced it to be the Asmangadh palace.it was built by asman jhavi,who was a prime minister in the nizam's court.though it has been named as a palace,it doesnt look like one.unfortunately, it is located in the campus of st.josephs school.the security guard there didnt allow to take pics.on asking him why it was not allowed,he said that it was the principal's order.i was annoyed,here we r searching for this place among the mazes and clutters of disorganized buildings,only to find ourselves not able to take any pics.well what could we do!.we just strolled around it,took a good view of it,all under the watchful eyes of the security guard,who looked as if it was his own property.the palace itself is nothing much,it's more of a mansion.soon we were out of the school limits and we took some pics from outside.then we headed towards raymond's obelisk,which was much easier to find.it is situated on a small hillock,which offers some good views of hyderabad.it has two structures, one is the obelisk itself,which has the initials JR written on the four sides.the other is a greek style building.both are beautiful.we took some pics and sat there sometime taking in the view.after sometime we left.we noted down the route we took and also marked some landmarks for our future trips.
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