Holiday season is here and I hope everyone is enjoying and having a merry time with their loved ones. This Christmas our daughter wished to visit Ramoji Film City. The film city is a must visit place in Hyderabad specially in winter. Hyderabad doesn’t have chilled winters but winter carnival in Ramoji Film City can give you a good vibes of winter fairyland. So we decided to take our princess to witness the magic of winter carnival of Ramoji Film City.
Now before sharing my day, I would like to share little information regarding Ramoji Film City with my readers who are not aware of this place. Ramoji Film City is a film studio in Hyderabad spread over a huge area of 1666 acres of land. It is the largest film studio complex in the world and that has been certified by Guinness World Records. The Guardian has explained Ramoji Film City as “city within a city”. It welcomes about 1.5 million tourists every year. So, no doubt it is one of the most popular place in Hyderabad.
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So let’s come back to my travel blogpost of Ramoji Film City on this Christmas. As I mentioned above my girl wanted to visit film city on Christmas so she was eagerly waiting for Christmas morning for two reasons. One reason was to see her Christmas gifts and other one was to go to the film city. So she woke up very early in the morning that is quite unusual but the excitement of having many good things made her wake up early. And after cheerfully receiving her gift, she got ready and so we set out for our Christmas outing to Ramoji Film City.
There is an option for online ticket booking from Ramoji Film City’s official website or you can instantly get your tickets on spot.
Timings For Ramoji Film City Hyderabad :
It is open all year round from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm.
We got our tickets and collected the road map and Ramoji Stickers to get inside. After entering we need to board bus to reach Eureka, the main point of Ramoji from where you can start exploring all the places of the film city. From Eureka, there are vintage red buses that we had to board for Studio tour and Eco Tour. You don’t have to pay anything extra for these buses, as it is included in the ticket.
Ticket Price For Ramoji Film City :
There are different packages available that depends upon the season of visiting. You can check Ramoji’s Webpage to avail the current packages.
Studio Tour Of Ramoji Film City
We started our trip from studio tour. Boarded on that beautiful red vintage bus where a guide was there who was explaining about the sets and the movies that were filmed there. We got down from the bus to see different sets closely. The studio tour can also be called as ” A Journey To The Land Of Cinema”.
In this tour, you can see the set up of :-
- Mythological Set
- Railway Station
- Central Jail
- Princess Street
- Airport
- Hawa Mahal
- Sanctuary Garden
- Deviyani Garden
- Kerala Palm Street
- Japanese Garden
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While we were exploring all the sets, we had some snacks at a cafe in Japanese garden. After that we got into the bus again for Eco tour.
Places to see in Eco tour are :-
- Askari Garden
- Butterfly park and Museum
- Wings – Exotic Bird Park
- Colors Garden
- Kripalu Caves
- Vaman – Bonsai Garden
- Flashback Tree
- Sun Fountain
Being quite energetic we finished all these places and headed towards Fundustan. There we saw a circus show which was indeed very nice. We enjoyed the show a lot.
After this we sat for a while as we were feeling a bit tired but then we decided to go towards Bahubali set. For that we had to board a bus again to reach there to see the magnificent Bahubali set. The entire set was eye captivating. We had our lunch there at Bahubali restaurant. And after having our hearty meal we came back to Eureka.
It was time to see some show, so we headed towards Ramoji movie magic. Saw some breathtaking dance performances by Ramoji’s artists. By this time it was getting dark and the most exciting part was yet to see. The Christmas lights were on and it was indeed looking like a fairyland. Live show as a part of Christmas Carnival started by that time.
We enjoyed the lights with a giant Christmas tree and had some evening snacks with coffee. And the day spent very well. And it was time to come back home. This year Christmas went very well.
I hope, you all had a great time this Christmas. Please share with me how was your Christmas in the comment section.
Wish you all a Happy New Year !!
