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Secunderabad
The Twin City
The cantonment, the junction station, canonical biryani and Osmania-biscuit bakeries.
The twin city across the lake: a former British cantonment of broad streets, a clock tower and the Deccan's great junction station. People come for Paradise's canonical biryani, Osmania biscuits from old bakeries and the flavour of railway India. Plainer, calmer and better-fed than showpiece Hyderabad.
Who it suits
biryani pilgrimage station bakeries the twin city
Staying here
Handy in transit: the junction station with hotels at every price around it.
In the evening
The biryani houses and cafes run late, so evenings stay lively.
Getting there
Ⓜ Secunderabad East · Paradise (Blue)
What to see
Where to eat
Blue SeaA quintessential Irani chai experience on the Secunderabad side, ideal for travellers arriving by train.
ParadiseThe city's oldest continuously running biryani house, since 1953. The benchmark most Hyderabadis measure the others against.
Other areas of Hyderabad
Areas on the map
In the app: the city's areas on the map, the places inside and a route.
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