Snow World

Snow World is an amusement park located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India within an area of about. Located beside Indira Park and along the Hussain Sagar lake, the park was inaugurated on 28 January 2004.BackgroundOcean Park Multitech Ltd. took the plot on a 33-year lease from the Government of Andhra Pradesh at the rate of per year. The lease amount was to go up by 5% every year. Constructed at a cost of, the facility was designed by Nitish Roy, a well-known Indian art director, production designer and architect. The facility, which was built in collaboration with the local tourism department, is India's first and the biggest in the world and was only the third such snow park after the ones in Malaysia and Singapore.On 28 January 2004, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu inaugurated the facility. Though it was not intended to be open for visitors on that day, some of them ventured into the facility. They experienced giddiness from inhaling excess nitrogen in the air, which is used to produce snow.FacilitiesTwo-hundred tonnes of artificial snow was laid on the layered flooring which was specially prepared to avoid seepage or melting. Every day, the top layer of snow is cleaned and an additional two to three tonnes of snow, which is generated within the facility, is used to top the snow spread. The artificial snow is made using a patented technology from Australia. The snow is made from water that is filtered four times so it won't harm children if they consume it.