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Monday, September 14, 2009

Tirupati Tour

We are planning to visit Tirupati from last 1 year, but plan was not executed with some reasons, At last we did that in last weekend(12th Spet 2009).
15 days before we went to TTD and fixed darshanam date and time with sudarshan token(50Rs/person and need person to take token).
On 11th Sept I had started from hyd in venkatadri Exp and reached Tirupati on next-day morning 7 A.M, On the other side naidu started from chennai and reached Tirupati on 3 A.M and booked room for us in Sreenivasm(near RTC bustand). 400 Rs/day(of-course its costly but no way to escape).I reached sreenivasm at 8 A.M from railway station and had brush and bath, Naidu already ready and waiting for me. Facilities in the room are not bad.

We left from Sreenivasm at 9 A.M and catch the local bus to reach ALIPIRI(We decided to goto up hill thru walk... its 4 km from Sreenivasm).We started walking at 10 A.M, there are so many pilgrims with us by walk. The total distance to reach up hill thru walk is apporx 17Km(3500 steps and some road way). We enjoyed the walking a lot with some snapshots and discussions with co-pilgrims .At one point we stopped walking (of-course this is not the first breaking pt... !!)for breakfast and had DOSA(extremely super taste) and again started walking with my nasty and funny jokes . After 9 months this is the time we met each other and shared all funny matters turned in our day-to-day life from last 9 months and some personal stuff also...!! We discussed lot of things on the way, So we did not feel like tired.
We reached Tirumal at 1.54 P.M and searched for sudarshan token darshanam queue, before that we kept mobiles and cam in free safety lockers and went to sudarshan token darshan block. We did not feel while walking long way , but we are really frustrated to keep mobiles in safety lockers(almost we spent 2 hrs in queue . really horrible).Almost 2 hrs in queue we got darshanam and collected free laddus. Then we went to free meals (Sambar is very tasty ..!!) and return to Sreenivasm by bus(24Rs. tkt). We stayed that night at sreenivasm .
Next day early morning we waked up at 5.30 A.M and decided to visit "sreekalahasti" 30K.M far from Tirupati. We started at 8 A.M on bus and reached kalahasti at 8.45 A.M and completed darshanam at around 10 A.M and returned back to Tirupati. After that We visited "Govindarajulu swami" temple which is 3 K.M far from Tirupati bus stand and returned back to home.

Here are some snapshots

Suggestions to who are willing to visit Tirupati.

1. First book the sudarshan token(50Rs/person)at TTD e-darsan counters with date and time before 15days back(If you want room plz book 1 month before).
2. If you want to go to Tirumala thru walk better to book one room at Sreenivasm(200Rs/day) to fresh up thr and start walk.
3. Otherwise better to book room at Tirumala(on the hill ... 100Rs/day).
4. Surrounding places to visit in Tirupati
a. Govindaraju swami temple(3km far from bus station)
b. Padmavati amma temple(7 km far from bus station).

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

EAMCET 2009 seat allotment postponed

According to news EAMCET-2009 seat allotment procedure postponed to 3rd sept 2009.Seat allotment info is send as SMS to mobile number. We can also get info on website http://apeamcet.nic.in/ .