{"id":5710,"date":"2013-08-27T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:39:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T12:39:30","slug":"special-tour-to-srisailam-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/?p=5710","title":{"rendered":"Special tour to Srisailam kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hyderabad<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

A Road-cum-River package tour from Hyderabad to Srisailam, through Nagarjunasagar dam and back to the city, has been introduced by the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department Corporation (APTDC) every Monday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

There are two special packages \u2014 the first one, is scheduled to depart Hyderabad around 8 am.\u00a0After a three-hour drive to Nagarjunasagar and a short excursion at the dam, the cruise to Srisailam leaves at around 11 am.<\/p>\n

The cruise is expected to arrive at Srisailam around 6 pm, covering the Nagarjunakonda museum, if time permits. After checking in for the night, covering Srisailam dam and Sakshi Ganapathi temple en route, the travelers will get a darshan at Srisailam at 8 pm. The next day the group will move to Mallela Thirtham and Farahabad wild life sanctuary towards Hyderabad and finally return to the city at around 8 pm.<\/p>\n

The second package includes departure from the city at 8 am (Monday or Thursday) by road,\u00a0 arrival at Srisailam after covering Mallela Thirtham and Farahabad wildlife sanctuary at 2 pm. The batch will get a darshan at 8 pm at Srisailam.<\/p>\n

The next morning the group will begin journey to Srisailam dam via Sakshi Ganapathi temple, then leave to Nagarjuna Sagar by cruise at 5 pm, covering Nagarjunakonda then leave for Hyderabad passing through Ettipotala waterfalls and dam.<\/p>\n

According to the APTDC authorities, the tour tariff for adults is Rs 3,150\/Child Rs 2,520 with Non A\/C accommodation, transportation and food.<\/p>\n

17 sriramsagar gates lifted<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nizamabad<\/strong>: 17 crest gates of Sriramsagar dam were lifted on\u00a0 Tuesday and\u00a0 flood waters released into the Godavari. According to\u00a0 project officials,\u00a0 heavy rains in catchment areas of Nizamabad, Adilabad districts and neighbouring Nanded district of Maharashtra resulted in huge inflows into river Godavari in the last few days.<\/p>\n

Around 75,000 cusecs of inflows reached the project on Tuesday.\u00a0 Initially,\u00a0 the officials opened 5 gates and later increased it up to 17 gates and released the water into the river. Meanwhile, 6,000 cusec of water into Kakatiya canal,\u00a0 500 cusecs into Saraswathi canal and\u00a0 2,000 cusecs for flood flow canal is being released as outflow. Sriramsagar dam reached full reservoir level of 1,091 ft\u00a0 touching\u00a0 its gross storage of 90.31 tmc ft water on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

source:http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com \/ Deccan Chronicle \/ Home> News> Current Affairs \/ by DC \/ August 14th, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hyderabad: A Road-cum-River package tour from Hyderabad to Srisailam, through Nagarjunasagar dam and back to the city, has been introduced by the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department Corporation (APTDC) every Monday and Thursday. There are two special packages \u2014 the first one, is scheduled to depart Hyderabad around 8 am.\u00a0After a three-hour drive to Nagarjunasagar and … Continue reading Special tour to Srisailam kicks off<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-business-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X5ZU-1u6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hyderabadfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}