My thrilling journey to Tirupati began on Saturday 19th of November 2011 with three of mine friends Monica, Siva and Mohindar when we set around 10:00 pm on bikes. It was a cool breezy night which was full of adventure. The route which we took for Tirupati was Kolar, Chittoor and finally to Tirupati. We moved towards Kolar. We reached Kolar at around 1:00 am. So, we stopped at a hotel on the highway had snacks and continued our travel. We reached Tirupati at around 3:00am.
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Tirupati temple is visited by around 100,000 devotees every day. Normally, people spend hours (and in some cases, days) together in queues to get a glimpse of the Lord Venkateshwara. And on festive days, the number doubles! There is a system of queues to control the crowd. We were also stuck in the crowded queues so as to get a glimpse of Lord Venkateshwara
Tirupati is the name of the city. Lord Venkateshwara’s temple is located on Tirumala Hills. It’s around 22 km uphill from the Tirupati city. Devotees can either take the road route to reach Tirumala, or can walk (i.e. Climb the stairs) all the way up. It’s an 8 km walk. It takes around 4 hours to go walking to the top.
Since, we had bikes so we took the road route. We reached Tirumala at around 12:00 noon. We went in a hotel to fill our stomachs.
After the Darshana, we came back to our room, took some rest. We had booked one more. Seven in the evening called the Sahara Deepalankarana Seva. So, we were kind of free for the whole day. So, we decided to see some other temples around Tirupati. We came back at around 7 PM. After the Darshana, we decided to go around the shopping complexes.
We did some minor shopping. Majority of the stuff in almost all the shop is somehow related to the Lord! But there is other stuff too. At around 9 PM we started back to us trip after dinner. We reached back to Bangalore at around 4:00 am. – Giving an end to our adventurous journey by bikes to Tirupati.
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