Chris Eilertson is in India as well. He joined Ganesh and I on our adventure to take the metro down to Koti. Koti is in the old city of Hyderabad, it's a very different place to the tall buildings and wide roads here in HiTech City. People are going every which way, there are street vendors selling everything from fresh sugarcane juice, to clothes and household items.
The metro was under construction the first time I visited Hyderabad. it's now up and running with 3 lines and more on the way. For a city with the kind of traffic that Hyderabad suffers from, these sorts of large infrastructure projects are essential.
The metro is a really impressive setup. Large, safe, clean, air conditioned cars and large stations. The system runs on elevated lines, which means that it can get right in to the areas of the city that are worst affected by traffic.
One of the Koti intersections with the metro line on the right side:
Once we got to Koti, Ganesh was nice enough to treat us to some shopping where I got a traditional south Indian kurta and pants, plus a nice short one. Here's me and Ganesh with my short kurta:
The metro was under construction the first time I visited Hyderabad. it's now up and running with 3 lines and more on the way. For a city with the kind of traffic that Hyderabad suffers from, these sorts of large infrastructure projects are essential.
The metro is a really impressive setup. Large, safe, clean, air conditioned cars and large stations. The system runs on elevated lines, which means that it can get right in to the areas of the city that are worst affected by traffic.
One of the Koti intersections with the metro line on the right side:
Once we got to Koti, Ganesh was nice enough to treat us to some shopping where I got a traditional south Indian kurta and pants, plus a nice short one. Here's me and Ganesh with my short kurta:
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