Trip to Basar and Charminar (Hyderabad)

Dec: 2008 - This is regarding my visit to Basar and way back where i went to see Charminar at Hyderabad. Basar is around kms from Hyderabad and is popular for Saraswati Temple, located in Nizamabad district. Basar is around 195 km from Hyderabad.

Basar is well connected by rail. We had a family trip all the way from Bangalore to Basar, which was a very exciting trip. There are couple of trains from Bangalore to Hyderabad. We caught a special train from Bangalore to Kacheguda (one of the stations in Hyderabad). We reached Kacheguda at around 4:00 am. We got refreshed in the waiting room and caught the inter-city express at Kacheguda station at 7:15 am and reached Basar at around 11:30 am. Don't search for this train in the http://www.irctc.co.in/, as you can reserve only AC tickets for this train. You just need to buy the ticket and get into the train.

From Basar railway station, we caught a sharing auto to the temple. Interestingly they charged us a reasonable amount of Rs 5/- per person. As the temple remains closed fro
m 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm, we reached by 12:00 pm. We got Akshrabhyasam for my son done. They charged around Rs 50/- for the pooja. There is a special Akshrabhyasam also for which they charge around Rs 500/- and is done in front of the Goddess Saraswati.