Places to visit in Telangana
63 places to visit in Telangana, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Ramappa Temple, Alampur Navabrahma Temples, Charminar and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Telangana volume.
1 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 4 National monuments · 2 State heritage sites · 24 Famous places to visit · 3 Offbeat places · 29 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Telangana (1)
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Ramappa Temple
Built in 1213 from bricks light enough to float, its ceiling still standing after two earthquakes.
National monuments in Telangana (4)
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Alampur Navabrahma Temples
Nine Badami Chalukya temples on the Tungabhadra.
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Charminar
Four minarets over the old city's crossroads, built to mark the end of a plague.
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Thousand Pillar Temple
Kakatiya star shaped, and a Nandi cut from one stone.
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Warangal Fort
Four ornamental gateways still standing where the Kakatiya capital was, the rest of it razed in 1323.
State heritage sites in Telangana (2)
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Qutb Shahi Tombs
Seven generations of a dynasty buried in one garden, each dome larger than the last until the money ran out.
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Toli Masjid
A mosque of 1671 built by the man who built the Charminar's architect's own work, with plaster niches.
Famous places to visit in Telangana (24)
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Alampur Jogulamba Temple
Jogulamba's temple on the Tungabhadra at Alampur, one of the eighteen great Shakta pithas.
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Ammapalli Sita Ramachandra Swamy Temple
A Chalukyan temple to Rama near Shamshabad, where Rama is said to have rested on his way to Dandakaranya. Hanuman stands not in the sanctum but at the foot of the flag post, and the old courtyard is a favourite of film crews.
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Ananthagiri Hills
The Musi rises here, in a forest an hour from the city.
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Bansilalpet Stepwell
A seventeenth century stepwell in Hyderabad, brought back into use by a restoration in 2022.
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Bhadrachalam Temple
On the Godavari, at the place tradition puts Rama's forest exile, built by a revenue officer who was jailed for the cost.
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Birla Mandir
White Rajasthani marble on a granite hill, finished in 1976, looking down over Hussain Sagar.
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Chilkur Balaji Temple
The visa temple: eleven circuits to ask, a hundred and eight to thank, and no hundi.
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Chowmahalla Palace
The Nizam's seat, four palaces around a courtyard, holding a clock wound by hand every week since 1750.
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Edupayala Vana Durga Bhavani Temple
The forest Durga at Edupayala, where seven streams gather to become the Manjira. Its Shivaratri jatara draws pilgrims from across Telangana, and in the monsoon the river sometimes closes the shrine.
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Falaknuma Palace
Built in the shape of a scorpion in 1893, with a dining table that seats one hundred and one people.
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Golconda Fort
A hill fort with acoustics that carry a handclap at the gate to the summit, and where the Koh i Noor was once traded.
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Hussain Sagar
A lake dug in 1563 that now sits between Hyderabad and Secunderabad, with a Buddha on a rock in the middle.
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KBR National Park
The Nizam's private grounds at Jubilee Hills, now a walled park in the middle of Hyderabad.
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Komrelly Mallanna Temple
Mallanna on his hill in Siddipet district, the same god Maharashtra calls Khandoba.
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Manyamkonda Venkateswara Temple
Lakshmi Venkateswara in a cave temple on a hill of granite boulders near Devarakadra, often called the Tirupati of Telangana. Pilgrims climb a long flight of steps to the shrine.
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Matsyagiri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple
A hilltop temple to Narasimha at Vemulakonda, where the god is worshipped in the form of a fish. The fish in its pond are said to carry the white namam of Vishnu on their heads, and the pond is said never to run dry.
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Mecca Masjid
Bricks from Mecca in the central arch.
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NTR Gardens
Thirty six acres beside Hussain Sagar around the memorial to N T Rama Rao, with a toy train and a view of the Buddha on the lake.
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Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
A masonry dam across the Krishna, standing on the line between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
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Nehru Zoological Park
Hyderabad's zoo, laid out beside the Mir Alam tank at Bahadurpura.
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Osman Sagar
The largest of Hyderabad's lakes, made to hold the water the city drinks.
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Ramoji Film City
The largest film studio complex in the world.
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Salar Jung Museum
One man's collection of forty three thousand objects, and one of the largest one person collections anywhere.
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Yadagirigutta
Rebuilt entirely in black granite, recently.
Offbeat places in Telangana (3)
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Bogatha Waterfall
A waterfall on the Cheekupally stream in the Mulugu forest, a long way from anywhere.
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Himayat Sagar
The smaller of the two lakes made to keep Hyderabad in water, lying alongside Osman Sagar.
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Kotla Vijayabhaskara Reddy Botanical Gardens
A botanical garden kept by the forest department in the middle of Hyderabad's tech district.
Hidden gems in Telangana (29)
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Basar Saraswati Temple
Where children are taught their first letters.
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Bashirbagh Palace
What is left of a Paigah palace in Hyderabad, mostly demolished in the 1950s.
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Bhongir Fort
One enormous egg shaped rock, climbed with a railing.
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Chaya Someswara Temple
A temple at Panagal where a shadow of a pillar falls on the linga and nobody can say from where.
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Durgam Cheruvu
The secret lake, and a cable stayed bridge over it.
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Hayat Bakshi Mosque
A mosque at Hayathnagar built by the Qutb Shahi queen who ruled in all but name.
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Kaleshwaram
Where the Godavari and Pranahita meet, and a shrine with two lingams.
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Karmanghat Hanuman Temple
A Kakatiya temple Aurangzeb is said to have ordered pulled down, and then let alone.
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Kawal Tiger Reserve
The Godavari's forests, and their return.
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Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary
Teak forest round the Kinnerasani reservoir, next to Bhadrachalam.
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Kulsum Begum Masjid
A Qutb Shahi mosque near Hussaini Alam, plain and early.
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Kuntala Falls
The tallest fall in the state, in Kadam forest.
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Laad Bazaar
Lac bangles sold along one street beside Charminar, the trade unchanged since the Qutb Shahi court bought here.
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Laknavaram Lake
A Kakatiya reservoir with islands in it and a suspension bridge over it.
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Mahavir Harina Vanasthali
A deer park on the edge of Hyderabad made out of the Nizam's shooting ground.
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Medak Cathedral
The largest diocese church in Asia, with English stained glass.
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Mir Alam Tank
A reservoir of 1806 built on twenty one masonry arches, the first of its kind anywhere.
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Moazzam Jahi Market
A granite market of 1935 in Hyderabad, built as a fish and fruit market and famous for its ice cream.
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Moula Ali
A hill in Hyderabad with a dargah at the top, four hundred and eighty five steps up.
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Mrugavani National Park
A small dry deciduous park at Chilkur, kept for the blackbuck and the walkers.
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Nizam Museum
The Purani Haveli at Hyderabad, with the world's longest wardrobe and a Rolls Royce.
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Nizam Sagar
The Nizam's own dam across the Manjira, holding water for the country north of Hyderabad.
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Pochampally Ikat Village
Thread dyed before weaving so the pattern appears as the cloth grows, in a village of ten thousand looms.
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Pochera Falls
Deep pools in a basalt bed.
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Rachakonda Fort
A fourteenth century fort of the Recherla Nayakas, east of Hyderabad.
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Spanish Mosque
A mosque in Moorish style with spires instead of domes, built by a Paigah noble who had been to Cordoba.
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St Joseph's Cathedral, Hyderabad
Gothic revival of 1870 with two spires, and bells cast in Italy.
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Swarnagiri Venkateswara Temple
A new hilltop temple to Venkateswara on the Manepally hills near Bhongir, consecrated in 2024. Its golden vimana and long climb of steps have made it one of the busiest new temples near Hyderabad.
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Vemulawada
Bulls offered, and the Kodanda Rama temple.
Collecting in Telangana
What are the best places to visit in Telangana?
LOQAH lists 63 places in Telangana. The best known include Ramappa Temple, Alampur Navabrahma Temples, Charminar, Thousand Pillar Temple and Warangal Fort. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Telangana?
63, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Telangana?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Telangana before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Telangana and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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