Throughout lockdown, Research Hyderabad through virtual heritage walks

Were you aware that the Qutb Shahi rulers of erstwhile Golconda kingdom Had camels? Golconda was about the caravan route known as the spice route, linking Masulipatnam about the shore with Surat coast. Because they can withstand long journeys with no food and water 18, camels were favored for its caravans. Nuggets of information such as these were shown throughout the heritage walk. It was a virtual heritage walk, unravelling on Twitter, complying with all the COVID-19 lockdown limitations.

Hyderabad Trails kicked off its chain of virtual Heritage walks on World Heritage Day, April 18. Hyderabad Trails plans to keep those virtual walks until it is safe to venture out for team heritage walks. Following Golconda and Charminar, the following one is very likely to be at Hussaini Alam, on International Mother's Day, May 10.

A B Gopalakrishna Founder of Hyderabad Trails, was a bit reluctant once the notion of a virtual walk on Twitter was floated by Andrew Fleming to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. "He'd attend our heritage walks and dwell chat, sharing about 25 to 30 tweets with pictures, information and keep it interactive via queries. He was convinced we could test a similar way," states Gopalakrishna.

Hyderabad Trails has remained active Instagram not, although at the past on Twitter. This moment, Gopalakrishna chose to give it a go. He understood it could be difficult to capture internet users' eye than while using a group of walkers that meet in a heritage website.

Gopalakrishna Looked in the last walks, accumulated photographs and advice and opted to run the virtual walk like he would an actual one. It started with introductions, encouraged by a photograph of a walkers that were the first birds in the entry of Golconda Fort, waiting to join.


The Virtual walk lasted through a string of tweets with photographs and queries and anecdotes. "Throughout a true walk, then and now folks would share stories which they've read or heard, pertaining to a historic website. We attempted to make that interactive character on the internet through questions and replies," states Gopalakrishna.

Nearly 300 Twitter users participated with the virtual Walk with at least 40 individuals, over both and a half hour length.

Stories of India
Gopalakrishna Wants to keep those virtual walks. In addition, he plans to perform just a'Stories of India' chat collection that is online by bringing to complete history insights of different places in India and inviting experts.

Lately, Hyderabad Trails ran one talk on the background of Warangal, in Telugu. "That is when I thought it'd be intriguing to engage individuals with tales from various areas of the nation," states Gopalakrishna.

Stories of India goals To contextualise the history of India . Expect to Listen into tales of origin of its heritage and a town, by those Conduct heritage falls in cities that are various.