A Trip to Tirupathi

On Midnight of 11th, I with my brother in Law (Uday) started our journey in train towards the world renowned temple of Sri Venkateshwara in the holy city of Tirupati. This is an 8 hour journey from Coimbatore. This trip we have planned ahead before 3 months and booked the tickets for Dharshan and Staying. Actually I have a horrible experience of staying in a Bad Room when i went there previously with my whole family, so this time I have booked the tickets for Staying.

We reached there by 12th Morning by 7:30 am. Went to a restaurant and had good breakfast. I had 2 Dosai and my brother in Law had poori. But actually speaking it is not as good as the one we get in Tamilnadu. We are planning to go to the top of Hill by walk, but we took bus service instead. We had a good Drive in bus for 30 Minutes and reached to the Hill Top. We reached there by 9:30 am. After getting down the Bus we had a huge walk to find where to give the Internet booked receipt and get the room allotted. Finally we found to from an auto driver that it is in Padmavathy Office. So we asked the auto man to take us to that place. Gave the receipt and get the room allotted. We asked the person in that office about the place we are going to stay. He told that it is very near and we can walk and go there.

We started our walk, would have asked at least 3 or 4 persons about the way where we are going to stay. Finally came to the place where we are going to stay by 10:00 am. We went to the reception, show the receipt, the person asked me to write the address and sign a register. After getting the signature we walked to get the Key. There are around 10 people sitting with the Key for different blocks. We would have asked at least 4 people and found the right person who we have got the key. We waited there for sometime for him to come. Got the Key and went upstairs to the room. The room was quite decent. My Brother in law went to the place for head shaving and he was waiting in a queue. Meanwhile i took bath roam around some places and came back to room.

After he shaved his head he looked completely different. He looks like a villan in Tamil movies. He he he... He got a bath and finally we started for darshan 'Q'. The Queue was quite high since it was a sunday. We stood there in the queue for more than 3 Hours to get Dharshan. We had a Very good darshan of the Lord Venkateshwara around 1:30pm. We thought of having another dharshan he he, But We tried to go back again.. But could not make up.. I was very hungry; we roamed around the places for lunch, but could not be able to get a good place to eat. We took Dosai and Vadai for Lunch. Came back to Room, had a very good nap.

We started back by 6:30 pm to get down the hill. We reached down by 7:00 pm. We tried to get a Train or Bus. We could not find any free seats in bus. Luckily I got into a Bus which was quite bad which I found out after travelling one hours on that to Chennai. My Brother in law took a Open Ticket and some how got into A/c Coach and started back to Coimbatore. This trip is too good and we enjoyed a lot in this trip.I still miss my Sisters, Mother and Dad in the Trip, but a Good One and a very good dharshan. Prayers to All