Thirupathi visit and useful tips....

My Manager had a venduthal to goto Tirupathi. So, He planned to travel to Tirupathi in his City. I just tagged on with him. We started on Friday evening from here and reached Tirupathi. We stayed in Hotel Mayura there. Though it was little expensive, But it was good. As soon as we checked in, we went to Devasthanam office to get the special darshan ticket 50 bugs. I got some additional tickets to get additional ladus. The time of visit was 8am next day morning.

We woke up early in the morning to get ready. We started out from the hotel by 6am. We reached the bottom of hill. There was a security check-in before taking path to upper Tirupathi. The road to upper thirupathi was good and it is one way. The travel was short and nice. Inside the temple, We stood in the queue for half an hour. When we reached the queue-end, we have found that the cell phones are not allowd inside the temple. So went back to cloak room, handed over our cell phones and they allowed us inside.

Surprisingly, we had good darshan for 20 seconds including some queue time in the inner temple. The devasthanam people try their best for arrangements. All together from the queue, it was only an hour from 8am to 9am. hats off to them!!! After upper Tiupati, we went to Alarmelmangauram temple also.

My tips for Tirupati visit are:

1. Be there the day before you want the visit. Collect your tokens from bottom Tirupati Devasthanam office on the previous day.

2. If you want more laddus, you can get more darshan tokens. It is legal.

3. Keep to your right in the queue when you approach the inner temple. You can have good darshnam in the queue, when you stand opposite to the statue.

4. The Chittor ring road is in a bad condition. I dont know what to say when asked Rs15 toll for that. Drive carefully there.

5. Bangalore to Tirupati road has sudden speed breaks in the road.

6. My friend has told there is alternate from oskot to bangalore. Not sure of it. Please enquire about it.

7. Chittor to Tirupati road was really good. But it is too much that they mentioned speed limit as 100 km/hr with out center-median. Beware there is a speed-break somewhere on the way.

8. If are travelling in car to upper tirupati, Dont forget to take security check-in before entering hill-road. Also, it takes sometime to clear the security check. So plan for that.