This is an area of town called Secret Lake. It's beautiful, but the water seems to be mostly sewage and when it's hot (which is every day) the water buffalo spend all day wallowing in the shallows. So it don't smell too great. There is a lot of construction around the lake because it is in High Tech City which is sort of a suburb of Hyderabad. Google and Microsoft and all the other IT companies have their offices in High Tech City. It's actually not as much a suburb anymore as it is a neighborhood in Hyderabad. I've been told that over the past five years the city has grown so much that it has swallowed up all the surrounding areas that used to be separate communities. I read that by 2012 Hyderabad is expected to have a population of 7 million. I think it is at 1 or 2 million right now. And as you can see from the one picture, a good number of these million or so people live in shanty towns made up of tarps and whatever scraps of cardboard and tin can be scrounged together. Most construction workers live in these shanty towns. It's strange to see these high rises being built by people who can't afford a house of their own. A small army of workers along with their wives and kids will construct a shanty town just a few hundred yards from whatever project they're working on. When the building is done and the upper class is ready to move in, the shanty town is quickly broken down and the workers are off to the next jobsite. It's a tent-city one day, and a parking lot the next.