My Trip to Tirumala

After sending my wife and Kid to my Mil's Homewtown for a marriage function got a temporary chance of becoming bachelor again and having plans in mind for the weekend got a call from my close-mate Rajesh for a trip to tirupathi.

Some of his officemates are the orginators and this offer comes with a double package of Tirupathi and a visit to the tourism spot Talaikonam near by to it. Without any hesitations said Double ok and startoff time for the same has been scheduled as 8:30 pm of saturday.Rajesh Home will be the pickup point for we two and Toyota-Innova came as planned carrying the rest 3.

Two balas and swaminathan all three colleques, to my close mate are our other partners for this trip. Started from kolathur at around 8:45 pm,slowly we started getting out from City traffic.Plan will be taking the route via redhills,Tada to tirupathi and on reaching the outskirts of city only realised that my journey in Innova is with a Mini-Schumacher(Bala-1).

Never thought that this Big car can be drived with this much of fast and elegance and for me really its a Thrill rider only.As a well-seasoned rally driver he make use of all available horse power provided by Toyota(Brakes too) and on the way also shown some stunts of driving the vehicle without lights(Power saver and Global warming initiative)

Cutoff time for clearance from tirupathi to tirumala is 12:00 of midnite and tagetting the same reached sharply tirupathi at 11:45 pm. Songs and the exciting drive keeps all of us fresh and on compeltion of security checks our thrill rides turm from normal roads to Hill roads.As same in the Highways our schumacher shown his talents and all of them got a chance of exercising themself in the car itself in the sharp U-turns and bends.20 mNts is the lap period for our racer from tirupathi to thirumala and leaving the vehicle in the parking spot moved to the next phase of identyfying the way for darshan.

300 Rupees ticket is the Ultimate choice and the same will be opened for darshan only at 4:00 am. Completing our midnite dinner of fried rice and dosas we all get ready to line up in the queue and crowd there is not as we have in the mind. Already its packed off with more than 50+ at 1:30 am we take off our postions and slowly started taking sleep in in the queue platform itself.There are times I used to think off people who used to live in the roadsides and having sleep there itself. Wondered how they are having that much of pleasant sleep in the open road with lights and sounds always on.God gave his answers to me and in the queue our sleep is really as pleasant as we have in our homes.

Crowd started moving slowly at 4:00 am and in a time span of 45 mnts max we are in the place whwre we want to be. Gods grace has fallen on us and in the midst of crowd we had the darshan in a full hearted manner.Coming out we gathered the free prasadam and on offering of Rs.10 got extra of that too.Next to God in tirupathi Laddu is the important part of attraction and for 300 rs ticket two laddus will be offered. Queue for collecting the same is not big and really the arrangements of devostanam is imperssive.

Variet of tickets free darsha, 50 Rs , Seva tickets, 300 Rs Ticket all has separate counters and managing the same with clean and care is a awesome work.Trying to get extra laddus other than the offered ones we came across with a photo seller outside the block offering a single laddu ticket for 50 Rs in the black market. Though its against the rules violating the same got it and extra laddu per head was added to our prasada collection.

Downside journery from tirumala to tirupathi at that early morning time is also a rollergoaster ride and enjoying the same without any afraid because of the confidence with our schumacher. Reached kalahasti to have a word with a friend of them from hyderabad and on Completion of the visit and breakfast started moving towards Thalaikonam tourist spot.

Not much I heard about and in the team i was only the first time visitor,so excitment and curious to see the place is much more to me than the others. From tirupathi it is located at a distance of merley 60 to 70 kms and most of the distance needs to be covered towards beyond the NH only.Even though the same is part of intervillage roads,quality of the same is really to be appreciated. Clean and distruction free road made our travel comfort and only hurdle we come across is locating the place. Eventhough the rest of the team had gone through twice everything seems to be new and make pitstops of 5 to 6 for enquiry.

Atlast our destination came in front of our eyes when the clock is ticking as 11:30 am....Even though it is the start of the summer still we feel the heat eventhough the entire journey is in a car which is best known for cooling in the market....Thalaikonam seems to be identical as other waterfalls spots as i visited and at the time of reaching seen a telugu film crew who was busy in shooting an film in which Mohanbabu son as a hero....Not concentrating much on the same we proceed with the purpose and started our water heroism instantly....Need to say out of 5 only a single sole Schumacher bala can swim in water and rest we all are good known for the therotical part of it...

Sleepliness, hectic travel, heat everything was forget by the entire team and more than we expect the water which is in the form of small pond is too chill to reach....Not much chance left and only we are able to delay our drop by few mnts and entire team assembled in water for next

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