Numaish: Night out!

And forever being an unplanned idiot, the second night in the new city of Hyderabad, I rode off to the most happening place in the new city.

Numaish-The Nampally exhibition remains the only one of it's kind in India. Started in 1938 with a hundred stalls, it now sprawls over the Exhibition Grounds of Nampally, visited by over 21 lakh people over 45 days.

Sounds exciting, right? What was not so thrilling for me and my new roommate was when the fair closed down at 2am the next morning and we had nowhere to go. (I had assumed it to be some sort of all night exhibition a la Durga Puja Exhibitions, West Bengal.) So there we where, eating haleem and biriyani without a clue what to do next. We ended up visiting the famous Hussain Sagar lake, late at night, teeming with teenagers and lovers under the lit roads. And we walked some more for some local delicacies and then some more, until we could walk no more.
When we finally reached home early the next morning, tired and exhausted, but our bags laden with goodies, we flopped on our beds and didn't see the sun again for another 27 hours.Read more