Private Full-Day Textile Tour Excursion from Hyderabad
Description
Creative and fashion-loving travelers will enjoy this private full-day tour to textile villages around Hyderabad. Your guide will take you to the kinds of places that would be very difficult to visit independently, such as weavers’ home-based workshops and local markets. See how some of the most beautiful saris in India are created, right from the beginning of the process to the finished product.
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Itinerary
Morning at 9am pick up from your Hotel or your desired location in Hyderabad and leave for a Full-Day guided excursion to the Weaving Village of Pochampally (02 hrs drive from Hyderabad) - where one observes a mix of tradition, modernity, culture, history and of course the famous IKKAT. The village is widely known for the Pochampally sarees. The town of beautiful craft is garnered by lush greenery and hills. This scenic habitat has place in UNESCO’s list of world heritage sites as part of ‘Iconic saree weaving cluster in India’. Pochampally has traditional looms, whose design is more than a century-old. Basking under the glory on par with the weavers of other places, Pochampally weave is popularly known as tie and dye weave. The uniqueness lies in the transfer of design and colouring onto warp and weft threads first and then weaves them together. The fabric is usually cotton, silk and sico - a mix of silk and cotton. Increasingly, the colours themselves are from natural sources and their blends. The consumer-weaver interactions provide inputs for new designs. The weavers from the older and new generation have shown resilience and adapted themselves to the changing tastes of the consumers. Visit the weavers, spend time getting to know them, their lifestyle and the process of weaving ikkat. Head for some traditional lunch (own expense) and then visit the Pochampally museum followed by a short walk along the lake and a visit to the House with 101 doors! Around 4pm Your tour ends and you drive back to Hyderabad and drop-off by 6pm to your hotel or other desired location in Hyderabad.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Pick-up from Your Hotel / Hyderabad Airport or your desired location in Hyderabad
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Dress code is smart casual
- The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
- A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
Reviews(5)
Very good tour with personal knowledge of Hyderabad. Textile tour was amazing and great to see all of the different steps involved in making the final textile. More enjoyment of the tour, less with the pressure to buy at the subsequent musuems/store.
Dear Guest, Please accept our gratitude for your kind review. We are thrilled to hear that you enjoyed your experience. We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with us so that we may learn from it and make the necessary improvements for the future. Best Wishes, Shakul Garg Call / Whats-app: +91 9837118670
Great seeing how done textiles are made but most of it was just a sales pitch to get us to buy over priced trinkets. If you are nervous about shipping on your own and are willing to pay 2-5 times the market rate to have a good guide this may be for you. If you are looking for an in depth understanding of cultural/historical textile manufacturing you may be better served on another tour.
Srinivas our guide gave us a most enjoyable day. We visited a village where we saw the tie dye process and walked through the village. We visited beautiful shops. It was a long drive out of hydrabad but our driver got us through the traffic efficiently. It was good to learn so much about India and the area of Hydrabad from a resident of the area
Dear Guest, Warm greetings from PCTI and thank you for sharing with us and the Viator/TripAdvisor community how much you enjoyed your tour with our services. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us all, as we try to achieve even higher standards of service and care. We are extremely delighted to have you as an “ambassador” for PCTI and look forward to welcoming you back. Shakul Garg Call / Whats-app: +91 9837118670
Mr. Srinivas gave me the most wonderful solo tour of Bhoodan Pochampally. He was a wonderful host and incredibly knowledgeable. The village that we visited for handmade ikat was amazing. You get to learn about the process for making this very special fabric from start to finish. We met artists in their homes and watched them create. I bought beautiful fabric that I will cherish forever. It was such a great experience to go outside of the city and see village life as well.
Dear Guest, Warm greetings from PCTI and thank you for sharing with us and the Viator/TripAdvisor community how much you enjoyed your tour with our services. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us all, as we try to achieve even higher standards of service and care. We are extremely delighted to have you as an “ambassador” for PCTI and look forward to welcoming you back. Shakul Garg Call / Whats-app: +91 9837118670
Amazing trip! Even the drive there was full of fascinating information about India and Hyderabad. Then we went into the dye and weaving houses to see the process of making this amazing saris. I came out of it with a greater appreciation of the art, as well as the time, effort, and skill involved in making them. It makes the stunning sari fabric I bought even more special. That was a theme with Srinu as my guide - not only did I have opportunities to see and purchase amazing textiles, pearls, and bidri metalwork, but every stop focused on showing me the beautiful art and educating me on the details and the process. Absolutely a great use of your time in India!
Dear Guest, Warm greetings from PCTI and thank you for sharing with us and the TripAdvisor community how much you enjoyed your tour with our services. Your positive feedback is a great source of motivation for us all, as we try to achieve even higher standards of service and care. We are extremely delighted to have you as an “ambassador” for PCTI and look forward to welcoming you back. Shakul Garg Call / Whats-app: +91 9837118670
