Hyderabad-V,Hussain Sagar

I have visited this places so many times in my life but this time we went to Hussain Sagar with my friend and their little daughters Dolly and Kunnu who came all the way from Scotland. I asked them to write about the places visited. 



They loved the place, small description in there words.

Gautama Buddha Statue

To see the Buddha statue you have to go through a park called Lumbini park. Then you can see gorgeous sites like water fall in the park but, to go to the statue you need a boat, it can be any type of bat like speed boat, family boat, the local boat or party boat. The statue is in the middle of a very big lake called Hussain sagar. 



Gautam Budhha Statue
The Buddha Statue of Hyderabad is a monolith located in India. It is the world's tallest monolith of Gautama Buddha.  An 18 meter high monolithic statue of Lord Buddha towers over the Hussain Sagar lake . Buddha Poornima project was started in  October 1985 N T Rama Rao Chief Minister of Andhra pradesh inaugurated work on structure.. The monolithic statue was chiselled out of a white granite rock, weighting 450 tons, granite rock was brought here Raigiri village near Hyderabad . It was carved by 200 sculptors for two years. The statue was erected on 12 April 1992 on a red coloured Lotus pedestal.
















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