Jaisamand Lake

¤ Jaisamand Lake - Larget Artificial Lake of Asia

The lake, built by Maharana Jai Singh in 1685, is the Largest artificial lake of the Asia and second Largest Lake in the World covering an area of 36sq km. The lake remained the largest artificial lake in the world till the building of the Aswan dam in Egypt.
The statistics of the lake is really amazing – 9 miles in breadth, 102 feet deep at its deepest end, a circumference of 30 miles with marble staircases leading into the water. The summer palaces of the Queens of Udaipur surround Jaisamand Lake on all sides.
Jaisamand is located 52km south east of Udaipur
 On the bank of lake are elegant marble steps descending to the water.
The Jaisamand Sanctuary built in 1957 covering an area of 62sqkm welcomes a wide variety of resident and migratory birds and animals.