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If you re pressed for time, APTDC runs three-day tours ( 1950) to Tirumala from Hyderabad. KSTDC (p 849 ) and TTDC (p 998 ) offer the same from Bengaluru and Chennai, states maps respectively. APTDC also has a full-day tour ( 340) of temples in the Tirupathi area.

You can also make your own way there from Hyderabad or Vijayawada. From Hyderabad, take a bus to Nagarjuna Sagar (from 85, four hours). From there, it s a 10 shared rickshaw to Pylon, states maps and another 10 to the boat launch. states maps The nearest train station is 22km away at Macherla, where buses leave regularly states maps for Nagarjuna Sagar.

kateshwara states maps here, at his home. It s one of India s most visited pilgrimage centres: states maps on average, 40,000 pilgrims come each day (the total often exceeds 100,000), and darshan (deity-viewing) runs 24/7. Temple staff alone number 12,000, and the efficient Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams (TTD; %2277777; www.tirumala.org) brilliantly states maps administers the crowds. As a result, although the throngs states maps can be overwhelming, a sense of order, states maps serenity and ease mostly prevails, and a trip to the Holy Hill can be fulfi lling, even if you re not a pilgrim.

Vijayawada is considered by many to be the heart of Andhra culture and language and has an important Durga temple. Nearby Amaravathi, meanwhile, was a centre of Buddhist learning and practice for many centuries.