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funding came from various sources including
donations from Public Sector Companies
under their CSR activities. Made at a total cost
of Rs. 3000 crore which includes the bridge

Popular photo point

Other attractions
The bridge JUNGLE SAFARI Animals and birds have
connecting the memorial to the mainland as been brought from various places. They
well as the maintenance of the facility for 15 include marmosets, green iguanas, lemurs,
years. capuchin monkeys, squirrel monkeys,
ostriches, scarlet macaws, green winged
The main features macaws, golden pheasants and lady Amherst
Connected well by rail and road from pheasants among others like giraffes and
Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara, ten to black panthers. About Rs.3 crores was spent
fifteen thousand people visit SOU every by State government to procure this exotic
day on an average, but a record of sorts was collection.
created when almost 40,000 people visited
SOU on one Christmas weekend. But I must
say, despite so many visitors everything is
well managed, no queues, no crowding and
no litter anywhere.
From the base there are lifts to carry visitors
up to a viewing gallery which is made in the
chest area, roughly at the height of the 44th.
floor of a building. The lift takes you up or
down in flat 38 seconds. A smooth ride and
wonderful experience!
This statue is currently the tallest in the
world...... double the height of The Statue Of Entrance to jungle safari
Liberty in New York which is only 93 meters CACTUS GARDEN There are over 6 lakh
tall and looks dwarfed in comparison. Here, plants of 450 species in about 25 acres of open
just the head alone is about 24 meters high. land and inside a huge dome having an area
You can go and stand near the sandal wearing of more than 800 square meters. This is a
feet of the mighty statue and get an idea of its major attraction since it is a unique botanical
enormous scale. garden exhibiting desert like ecosystem.

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