I visited the State Library here in the city. Held in an old, dusty building, it looked like half English books and half Indian languages. Most of the books were so old and worn it was hard to see their titles. It was strange when I wanted to read a book that I had to fill out a piece of paper though.
I also paid a visit to Salar Jung Museum, which had a wide variety of art from Europe and Asia. To get inside, there was a security check. One line female, one line male. The male line was about 5x longer.
This city has almost five million people in it, making road crossings frightening. There are very few traffic lights in the city.
There was one more museum I visited: AP State Museum. It was mostly about India and this state and was pretty good. The courtyard had a big wooden chariot.
I also stopped at Lumbini park on the shores of the lake known as Hussain Sagar. After the exhaustive security check which required me to take a photo with my camera to prove it was a camera, it was a really unimpressive place.
I caught a public bus back. This is my first time trying the public city buses in India. I figured out there is a front door and seats for women and a rear door and seats for men. In the back it gets very crowded. There is no door on the buses, so people are jumping on and off and trying to squeeze inside. It was so tight, I began to think if someone wanted to pick my pocket, this would be a good time. But I was prepared, I took out my ID cards and almost all my money before using any buses in this city. Nothing like that happened anyway.