Laknavaram Lake is around 78 km from Warangal and 6 km from Govindaraopet. Tourists coming from Warangal direction has to take the NH 202 road towards Mulugu. After crossing mulugu, drive 8 km to the right direction into the thick forest to reach this place.
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The green hills of Govindaraopet agency mandal lie side by side to form a massive bowl like structure which holds the spacious, beautiful and pristine Laknavaram lake popular known as ‘Laknavaram Cheruvu’.
The lake was the discovery of ancient Kakatiya rulers. They spotted this excellent place amidst trees and green hills lined up around to hold the rainwater.
The Kakatiya rulers only built a small sluice gate turning the place into a spacious lake which now feeds thousands of acres of agricultural land every year.
The locales in Warangal are very beautiful and the bounty of nature inescapable. Today we visited Laknavala cheruvu or Laknavala Lake a beautiful land-locked water body with lazy, green islands strewn in between. The Laknavaram lake has suspension bridges to one of the islands, and several jetties on the bridge and along the lake end.
There was a boat tied to one of the jetties, and it would have normally been made available to the general public. During our visit, the district collector was also scheduled to make a visit to the area, and the boat had been reserved for his use.
A sweet-water Laknavaram lake spread over 10,000 acres in the midst of green lush hills surrounded by thick forests
Laknavaram is about 220 odd kms from Hyderabad, and this is the route: http://goo.gl/maps/ks2i2
