Telangana

Telangana is visited as Hyderabad, and Hyderabad earns it. The Charminar, Golconda Fort and the Qutb Shahi tombs are one continuous story, and the three were put forward together on India's UNESCO tentative list in 2010. Do the tombs early and the fort late, when the granite has stopped throwing heat back at you. The rest of the state is the Kakatiya circuit, and the mistake is trying to do it as a day trip from the city. Warangal Fort, the Thousand Pillar Temple and the Ramappa Temple at Palampet in Mulugu district, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, are spread across real distances. Stay a night in Warangal and it becomes the best part of the trip. Squeeze it into one day and it becomes eight hours in a car. Almost nobody stops at Bhongir, where a single granite dome carries a fort you can climb in about half an hour, or at Pochampally, the ikat weaving village UN Tourism named one of its Best Tourism Villages in 2021. Both sit on the road out towards Warangal, so there is no detour to justify. October to February. April and May run past forty degrees, and the monsoon holds from June to September.