Sunday, August 13, 2017

MY JOURNEY TRIP TOWARDS HYDERABAD – ARUNACHALAM – SRIPURAM - TIRUPATI – SRIKALAHASTI – HYDERABAD

     {5Days – 4 Members, Family Tour, 3 States, 1800 Kms above – August 2017}

At first, we started our journey in train from Hyderabad to Katpadi railway station. Form Katpadi , We went Arunachalam by bus. And it took 20 hours to reach Arunchalam place from Hyderabad. Also I have updated my quora.com while travelling only.

In Arunchalam, no one speak English and it is bit hard for us to understand Tamil Language as we are Telugu speaking people. In Arunachalam we stayed in Siva Sannidhi cottage which was allotted for telugu people mostly. Which is opposite to Ramana Ashram.

Arunachaleswar Temple



{Arunachala refers to the holy hill at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu. The hill is also known by the names Arunagiri, Annamalai Hill, Arunachalam, Arunai, Sonagiri and Sonachalam.}

We all visited the Arunachaleswar Temple and worshipped the God Shiva. After that we did Giri Pradakshina and covered 8 Shiva temples during Giri Pradakshina. For doing this we have travelled nearly 14 to 16 kms around the Ananthagiri hill. Those temples are Indra Lingam, Agni Lingam, Yama Lingam, Niruthi Lingam, Varuna Lingam, Vayu Lingam, Kubera Lingam and Eesaniya Lingam in the morning time and at night time my mother and brother did giri pradakshina in full moon day on foot.

After arunchalam place we travelled in a car to Sripuram Place visited Golden temple and worshipped the Goddess Sri Maha Lakshmi. Also saw the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University at Vellore. After Sripuram we have catched train for Tirupathi.

Sripuram Temple



{ The golden temple complex inside the Sripuram  spiritual park is situated at the foot of a small range of green hills at Thirumalaikodi village, 8 km from Vellore in Tamil Nadu, India. This temple is gilded with 1500 kg of pure gold; double the 750 kg gilding of the Golden Temple at Amritsar.}

When we reached Tirupathi the climate is not good. So, security women told us to catch bus to Tirumala. It took 40 minutes to reach Tirumala Hills. My brother travelled to Tirumala by walk through steps. He took 3 hours to reach Tirumala Hills.  And we all stayed in Vasavi Satram at Tirumala.

We had Swamy darshan twice in 9 hours during the day through special entry tickets. After our darshan we did local tour in car at Tirumala and seen Luxury Cottages of famous cine actors and business people like Anil Ambani and Mukesh Ambani etc. Due to tight schedule we were unable to cover universities which are located in Tirupathi.

From Tirumala, we went directly to Kalahasthi and stayed in a Hotel. Next day morning we saw the Srikalahasti Temple. Also we did Rahu and Kethu pooja and left our pooja clothes there and return back to Hyderabad.