Tirumala Tirupati

Tirumala Sri Venkateshwara temple is world famous temple, I don’t think no information is required about this place.

Tirupati is around 245Kms from Bengaluru and plenty of options to reach this holey place. This time we planned to drive our-self and park our vehicle near Tirupati and climb to Tirumala hills. Tirumala hills are part of Seshachalam hills range. It consists of a total 3550 Steps which makes a distance of 12 km. On an average we need around 4 hours to climb this hill.

Since we were visiting temple in peak summer season we decided to climb the hill in mid night to avoid the heat. We started our climb around 3.00AM parking our car in dedicated parking area. There is enough parking place and its safe too to park our vehicles.

Entrance to the hill:

First gowpura (gali gowpura):

This was the first time I saw this place so empty:

From this place walk will be bit easy and we can see beautiful hill across.

Finally completed our hike with in 3 hours, which is quite a good time to compared to previous hikes.

This time lucky enough to complete the Darshana also with-in couple of hours. Finishing Darshana started same day back to Bengaluru.

Kaiwara Temple

Kaiwara is one of the gateways around Namma Bengaluru. This little town is about 65 kms from Bengaluru. It will not take more than 2 hours to reach this place depends on the time you start.

Road is very good, one should take Chintamani route to reach this place.

This is the place dedicated to  a famous saint "Narayanappa" popularly known as Kaiwaram Thathaiyya. He has composed beautiful keerthanas on Amara Narayana Swamy (Vishnu) in Kannada and Telugu Languages.

It will not take more than 30 minute to complete the Darshana and to have a look around the place.  

The Amara Narayana Swamy temple is the first point of interest in Kaiwara. Once we had darshana we headed towards Vaikunta betta. Which is around 2 Kms from Kaiwara temple and hardly takes 10 minutes to reach.

There is enough place for the parking and on the way we can see the mini zoo but my personal option is not worth visit place.

Vaikunta betta temple is also good for photography and very peaceful place.

From here again on the same day we can visit Kailasa giri which is around 5 to 10 KMs from Vaikunta betta.

We can easily cover all these places in one day and can return bengaluru by evening.