Visit to Chikka Tirupati

[mjothi]

When searching for weekend spots around bangalore, I came across the travelogue by agag. After reading those, I was curious to visit the Chikka tirupati. Did some googling to get the location & direction.
So, 29th March, we decided to do the visit. Planned to start around 9am but as usual could only get on the car by 10am. Took the Whitefield, Channasandra route. Roads are with pot holes and Humps. I should say more humps than the pot holes. I dont know who planned for the height of the humps. Really bad.
Btw, I found a Family restaurant after crossing the ACC plant. But was in dilema to try anything there. Anyone tried it?
The route was really a nice one. Eventhough the sun was shining, the wind was cool. Thanks to the greeneary all along the way.

When I was taking picture, I noticed that there are so many honey hive on the trees. Wondering what would happen if some birds disturb it.
We reached the temple around 11:30am. Bought the pooja materials for archana and went to the temple. The practice here was little different than the temple I have visited. Usually I have seen that we give the coconut and other Pooja items to the temple poojari. And he only breaks the coconut. But here we are suppose to do that ourselve just outside the sannidanam. So, we broke it and worshiped there first before entering the sanidanam.
Eventhough not much crowded, there was some small queue. While we were waiting in the queue, suddenly a guy came there in kakki and with a long stick. I was just seeing what he is doing. Then saw him climbing on the Hundi and hitting the hole with the stick. Oh, what is he doing. Then we came to know that someone droped some offering and it got stuck on the way. So, they are "helping" him to get the offering to the "right person".
When we are just about to get to the place to see the lord, oops, power cut. Waited for a while, and the power came back, thank god.

The dressing and flower decoration for the god was really great. The lights used inside was of Green color and it gave some special effect to the Moorthies. Darshan was done and we came out and had some rest.
While we were resting in the temple, we could see lot of Monkeys coming to us. None of them are scared of people. May be very used to. One came with her baby. Nice to see the way the baby was holding the mother. A banana was given to her and she started eating just right there.
Mum & baby [Sorry for the low reso, its from K750i]

Then came out and had some photo.
The Gopuram

Gopuram with Koti Kambam

On the way back, i just stopped the car and was relaxing. I saw a farmer doing his work.

On seeing him for a while, I was thinking about how we guys keep complaining about one thing or other. We are gifted by god with good life but still many out there complaining about their way of life. Here is a guy who has none of what we have, but still enjoying his every moment.

Time to go home... Enjoyed the scenery a lot (except those pot holes...) and reached home near 2pm.

Route: K.R.Puram -> WhiteField -> Channasandra -> Kalkunte village - Chikka tirupati
Vehicle: Zen LXi
Total KMs: 70Kms total
Time for the visit: 4Hrs.

[katalysm76]

Neat pics dude, i've never visited triupati... looks like a great place. Thanks for posting. Love the greeneary man.

[snaronikar]

Nice pics and explanation. I did the same on 22/03. Yes, the roads were very bad in the route you have taken. I did take same route while visiting the temple. But while coming back, I took Sarjapur Road, this road is better than the Channasandra route. On the way back, stopped in a farm and took the lunch. It was just like weekend picnic with the family. The kids and the family enjoyed this though.

For route, you could have gone thorugh the thread I had raised in route/travel query and people here have given the 3 options to reach chikka thirupathy. You could have taken either one of them. Here is the link for this: http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/route-...tirupathi.html (Route query - Bangalore to Chikka Tirupathi).

Anyways, hope the family enjoyed this picnic. :-)

[mjothi]

@snaronikar
Yes, I checked that thread. Infact from your thread only I got this idea of visiting this place
But since I was staying near K.R.Puram, I thought of taking the shortest route eventhough I read from your thread that sarjapur route was better.
Ya, we enjoyed the trip a lot...

[bglsrini]

yes,chikka tirupathi is a nice place and very close from my work place(attibele).

[rachis]

Does anyone know if head tonsuring takes place in chikka tirupati temple? Will appreciate any information regarding this. Planning to visit this place tomorrow.

[mjothi]

Yes I have seen its being done there. You can visit chikka trirupati for that too.