Road Trip to Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and Ethipothala Falls !!

My life was engulfed by the boredom and the laziness.. and it was time I hadn't any outing for quite a time ... so we decided to go out some where and we landed on Nagarjuna Sagar Dam.

We hired the ac cab and started our journey at around 7:30 am in the morning.We started our journey on one of the worst road to Nagarjuna Sagar. It is one road with big curves and turns , but still the road journey was great with all the beautiful songs being played by the driver ...those old songs just refreshed my childhood memories. We did the stretch of 160 km in just a little over than 3 hours.

Nagarjuna Sagar Dam

When we reached the dam we inquired about the tourist places around . We came to know that there is a buddhist monastery and a museum on an island near the dam , Ethipothala waterfalls where there is a light show , in the evening. We headed for the island , we had to take a jetty to reach there and it took forty five minutes. Before going there, we had snacks and took pictures.
On the island we visited the museum , we were not much interested in museum so we moved out quickly and started exploring the island , the island wasn't really that great but there were some monuments where one can take good photos. We returned from the island at around 5pm , were a bit late so we had to miss the buddhist monastery , we headed towards the Ethipothala falls , it was around 16 km from the dam.

Ethipothala Falls

We decide to stay for the light show and it was worth it . After this we headed back to hyderabad and had a great dinner. Overall it was a good outing and worth visiting one time.

Trivia: It is the largest masonry dam in the world. It has 9 gates for irrigation, 11 for power, and 26 gates for the reservoir.

~Apurva