Puri beach witness world’s ‘tallest’ sand Santa

Noted sand artist Sudarsan celebrated Christmas eve by creating a 45-feet-high sand Santa Claus with a “World Peace” message at Puri beach on Thursday.

Noted sand artist Sudarsan celebrated Christmas eve by creating a 45-feet-high sand Santa Claus with a “World Peace” message at Puri beach on Thursday.

Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a 45ft high sand Santa Claus with message “World Peace" at Puri beach of Orissa.(PTI Photo)

Patnaik’s sand statue can to be recognised as the world’s tallest Santa made of sand.

Sudarsan used more than 1000 tonnes of sand with some coloured sand in creating Santa. He was assisted by 20 of his students at the Sudarsan Sand Art Institute of Puri.

The team took 22 hours in two days to build up the mammoth structure, which is on display from today evening till January 1.

Sudarsan has also created Lord Jesus and Mother Mary.

“I have appealed to Limca Book of Records to place this record in their book. We broke our own previous record,” Patnaik said.