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Nagarjunasagar
- the tallest and biggest masonry dam in the world across the
river Krishna, is about 150 km away from the metropolitan city
of Hyderabad. It creates the third largest man- made lake in
the world. Nearby Nagarjunakonda is known for its extensive
ruins of Buddhist Stupas, Viharas and a university that
flourished under Acharya Nagarjuna, the great Buddhist savant,
scholar and philosopher who migrated to Nagarjunakonda from
Amaravati to spread the message of the Buddha. Interestingly
excavations conducted here have also revealed Brahmanical
temples, which reveal the friendship that existed here
centuries ago between the two faiths. Now though the actual
site of the excavations have been flooded with the waters of
the mighty river, the relies of the ruins have been
reconstructed and kept in an Island Museum, the largest of its
kind in the world and are in an excellent state of
preservation-thanks to the efforts of the Archaeological
Survey of India. Today Nagarjunakonda along with
Nagarjunasagar attracts many tourists from South East Asian
Countries and also from all over India.
General
Information
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Altitude |
244
meters |
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Rainfall |
89
cm |
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Best
Season |
July
to March |
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Temperature |
Summer-
Max 39.4, Min 20; Winter- Max 22, Min 13.8 |
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STD
Code |
08524 |
How
to get there
Air
The
nearest airport is Hyderabad (149 km).
Rail
The
nearest railhead is at Macherla which is 27 km from
Nagarjunasagar. However the convenient railhead is Vijaywada
(177 km) for tourist travelling from Bombay.
Road
Vijayapuri
(Nagarjunasagar) is connected by good motorable roads with
Amravati 179 km, Bangalore 619 km, Ethipothala 11 km, Guntur
145 km, Hyderabad 149 km, Kurnool 261 km, Macherla 27 km,
Madras 546 km, Tirupati 493 km, Vijayawada 177 km,
Vishakhapatnam 543 km
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