I have jotted down some of the places around Hyderabad. These are classified into some broad categories depending on the interest of different people.
Picnic or Day trips
Weekend Breaks
Picnic or Day trips
- Ramoji Film City
- Mount Opera
- Vanasthalipuram Deer Park
- Medak and Pocharam Reservoir
- Surendrapuri\Yadagirigutta
- Keesara Gutta
- Bhongir Fort
- Shamirpet Lake & Deer Park
- Gandipet Lake
- Chilkur Balaji Temple
- Rural Tourism Project at Pochampally
- Himayat Sagar Lake
- Mallela Theertham Waterfalls
- Lake Fox Sagar
- Saroornagar Lake
- Vikarabad or Ananthgiri Hills
- Kotepally Reservoir
- Narsapur Forest and Lake
- Konda Pochamma Dam and Reservoir
- KoilSagar Dam
- Chincholi wildlife sanctuary
- Singur Dam
- Rameshwaram temple, Pamapuram
- Sirnapally waterfalls
Other than these there are number of resorts around Hyderabad for day trips.
Weekend Breaks
- Srisailam
- Dindi Reservoir\Dam
- Nagarjuna Sagar
- Bhadrachalam
- Rajamundry
- Suryalanka Beach
- Bidar
- Tirupati
- Vijaywada/Bhavani Island
- Belum Caves
- Basar Saraswati Temple
- Pochera Falls
- Kuntala Falls
- Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary
- Warangal
Leisure Trips or Treks - I have classified this separately since this might take more than just a weekend to visit these places.
- Vishakapatnam and Araku Valley
- Talakona Falls
- Rottikallu
- Horsley Hills
- Tyda
- Jagdalpur - Chitrakoot Falls and Tiratgarh Falls
- Tada Falls
- Coorg
- Hampi
- Maredumilli Forest
- Konaseema
- Gandikota - Grand Canyon of India
- Lambasingi
- Goa and Murudeswar
- Adiyogi Shiva Statue
Please suggest if there are any more and I will add up to this list.
