Trip to Tripati - 2

this pic was taken in Bhima's hotel in Tirupati..

some facts about tirupati :

The idol of the god Vishnu was believed to have attained its form on its own by self- manifestation ( suyambhu).. it wasn't sculpted by any human it seems!

Tirupati is the 2nd most visited holy place after Vatican city!.

The mountains of Tirupati had born because of the movement of tectonic plates. The area had risen from the sea due to the motion of Indian plate. The proof of which, stands the stone arch which is said to be formed due to erosion by waves. And this incident is attributed(by geologists) to Lord Varahaswamy lifting the earth from under the sea.

And lots of other interesting facts are there, but i doubt their credibility so, didnt bring it in this blog..

The next morning we woke up and got ready to ascend the hill .. some of my friends stayed back in the rooms promising that they would join later at the top.. so, leaving them behind we stepped out at 4.30 am.. we fetched a jeep in which 19 of us squeezed in ( i 've got photo evidence).. we reached the foothils within 10 mins .. the journey to the temple will take five hours and we have 3550 steps to cross..!

we started to ascend the hill... every 100th step had the number of the step engraved on it.. so, when i was in my hundreth step half the people were out of my vision...wnly a few were with me, with them i started temple wards.. occasionally i stopped here and there..

at 7:55 am, i stepped on my final step, the 3550th!.. and i was the first and waited for the rest to join...after having breakfast we went to the stand in long queue!.. after waiting for an hour rest joined us including those who stayed back.. after joining them, we flourished our tickets to the guards and stood in the queue.. unlike last time, the queue moved very swiftly without any stop, occasionaly we were squeezed and waited for a long time.. after 1 and a half hours we 'd a the darshan and after that we 'd our lunch at a restaurant.. i wasnt able to eat anything! ..couple of my friends tonsured!..

After 45 mins we reached the foot-hill by bus, went to our rooms refreshed and rested for a while and we boarded the bus at 5 :30 and reached Chennai at 9...

Tthis is one of my memorable trip!