2024

BOTANICAL GARDEN

Parks and gardens

Godavari is a very small garden with peaceful paths and a noteworthy orchid house. At the entrance, you are given a map and a small manual in English, as the plants are not labeled. A little further on, at the end of the main road, you come to the Godavari Kunda pond, a natural site that holds the sacred water of the Godavari River, endowed with supernatural powers. Every twelve years in summer, festivities take place here, and the ritual baths performed are said to provide as much merit as an offering of six million cows.

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