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Indian City Travel Guide >>Udaipur >> Parks & Gardens |
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About Parks & Gardens |
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SAHELION – KI – BADI :- Sahelion-ki-badi
(Girl Friends Garden or Honoured Girls Garen) just adjoining the east of
the embankment of Fatehsagar lake was constructed in its present from by
Maharana Fateh Singh after the original garden had been washed away on
account of the breach of its old embankment. A Profusion of flowers, well
laid court yards and lotuspool studded with water fountains guarded by
four marble elephants – each elephant sculptured out of a single piece of
stone – will feast the eyes of visitors. Spacious and well maintained
lawns, beautified by blooming flowers and the setting of huge groves of
trees, present a spectacular Sight to enjoy. It is also aptly called the
Garden of Fountains. When the fountains are in their showery action
creating arain-like sounds, white elephants spout water from their lovely
trunks on lotus leaves and water cascades from the circular eaves of the
pavilion standing in a huge water pool – visitors find themselves amidst
the rain-like scenes and atmosphere to be seen, believed and enjoyed. The
garden has assumed the attraction of being one of the glamour-spots of the
city cine-film shooters and has contributed considerably to the scenic
beauty of a number of film pictures. On completing his visit of the
garden, the visitor will feel himself carried into a fairy-land permeated
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garden about a 100 acre area and having plentiful verdure, was laid out by
Mahaarana Sajjan Singh (1859-74). It has electrically lit and well planned
tarred roads, well maintained spacious lawns, a good museum, a library
(containing rarest and valuable paintings, manuscripts and books of
historical importance) and a zoo. The main water pumping station and water
reservoir of the recently laid out comprehensive water supply scheme are
also here. A visit to this garden would be soothing 
construction was abandoned as soon as the famine conditions were over, and
the 5 acre walled islet was left neglected to turn, during the last 30
years, into a mysterious haunt of thorny trees and shrubs, raptiles, swamp
and stink. The State government has recently converted this one time a
dreadful island into a beautiful park dedicated to the memory of the late
Prime Minister Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru. It was inaugurated on the 14th of
November, 1967 by the Governor of Rajasthan. The park – rectangual in
shape with semi-circular ends; crowned by chhatries on each corner, by a
baradari on the northern fringe and by an inviting suit in a honey
moon-like silence on the southern side – all facing the vast sheet of the
blue waters of the lake; dootted by luch green lawns and studden with
arrays of flowers in multitude of enchantin clours in riot; enlivened by
play of colourful fountains of changing geometrics and lit in the night
and eflecting into the ripples of the lake – looks like a fairy land
seemingly afloat on the water. A 375 feet RCC bridge links the 80 seata
boad shaped café with the park, and provides a delightful walk over the
water; a gigantic jet fountain in the lake spouts up the colourful sprays
of water to a dizzy height of 150 feet; boats move hither and thither in a
hectic way; hundreds of visitors stroll in a gay mood and silvery lights
sparkle over the calm waters. The whole environment of the lake presents
an enchanting carnival to be seen and believed. Boat service is available
on the boat – ghat over Municipal Rock Garden on the lake at a nominal
charge per head. 
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