The last day was a peaceful ending of a sometimes exhausting and overwhelming Study Trip. Some participants slept in, while others enjoyed breakfast at the hotel. Until 12 o’clock everyone had to pack and check out of the “Le Meridien” in New Delhi. Soon after we took a few cabs to get driven to the […]

Around nine o’clock we met at the bus to start our last sightseeng day. Our first stop was at the Gate of India wich is offcially called All India War Memorial. Afterwards we went to see Humayun’s Tomb wich was built in 1562 by Humayun’s wife, a very impressive and massive building.   Instead of […]

Today we visited Nasscom, a trade association of Indian Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing industry. The meeting was arranged at 10am but since there wasn’t much traffic we arrived half an hour earlier. So we decided to have tea and coffee at a nearby shop. The presentation at Nasscom was very interesting since their members include more than 1’200 […]

We left our hotel at 3am heading to Taj Mahal. During the journy we celebrated the birthday of Moritz with cake and singing. The reason for the early waking up was the idea reaching Taj Mahal in the sunrise. It turned out the ride takes longer than expected. Finally we spent around 6 hours on […]

After a busy stay in Hyderabad full of company visits and sightseeing activities the schedule on this day provided a break with lots of free time in the morning. Nevertheless a part of the group joined the optional early morning trip to the center of Hyderabad to visit Charminar. The Charminar was built by king […]

  Today was all about Bollywood. We visited the RAMOJI Film City – allegedly the worlds largest film studios. After a relatively short bus ride we arrived in the midst of what looked and later felt like a million Indian school kids, their teachers and a lot (!) of other locals. As the temperature climbed […]

After a tasteful breakfast in hotel “The Park”, the first day in Hyderabad started by visiting Cognizant, which most generously sponsors this trip partly. The offices are located in the part of the city which is called “Cyberabad”. This is where nearly all IT companies premises are situated. As always we received our badges, which […]

First point on our program was an optional visit on the Bangalore K.R. Flower Market around 7 a.m.. Despite the early hour there were 7 of us to see the amount of beautiful flowers that are sold every day. Afterwards it was time to checkout and getting ready for a proper Indian lunch which included […]

The day started with a visit to Cognizant. Everyone gathered in the hotel lobby at 8.30 in the morning and then we headed to Cognizant. The building was near to other IT companies like Yahoo, Juniper and Oracle. There were two speakers from Cognizant who told us about the company itself and the recruitment process […]

Our first day started with a generous breakfast at 7.00 in the morning. After a very comfortable drive in our tour bus through the crazy Bangalore traffic we safely arrived at the SAP Labs headquarter. The staff welcomed us with open arms and they gave us an introduction to SAP in general and their very […]