swartz bay ferry Launches ( 90, one hour) depart from Vijayapuri, on the banks of Nagarjuna Sagar, at 9.30am, 11am an

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Launches ( 90, one hour) depart from Vijayapuri, on the banks of Nagarjuna Sagar, at 9.30am, 11am and 1.30pm, and stay for one hour. To do the place justice, take the morning launch out and the afternoon one back. Extra morning launches usually run on weekends and holidays. Fisherman out in their dish-shaped coracle swartz bay ferry boats provide good photographic material.

Hyderabad has one of the world s largest freestanding stone Buddha statues (Map p 898 ), completed in 1990 after five years of work. However, when the 17.5m-high, 350-tonne monolith swartz bay ferry was being ferried to its place in the Hussain Sagar, the barge sank. Fortunately, the statue was raised swartz bay ferry undamaged in 1992 and is now on a plinth swartz bay ferry in the middle of the lake. It s a magnificent sight when alit at night.