We started off from Bangalore on the 14th of March at around 3 PM...We were driving in a Wagon R LXi (my uncle's car) ...I stay near Hennur on outer ring road and hence took a short cut from the Hennur Bagalur main road to get on to the OMR (Old Madras Road) to reach Hoskote. From the point we join on OMR (near Manjunatha hospital, 1 KM before BPL factory on the way towards Hoskote) it is 7 Kms to Hoskote.
Here is the route from Bangalore to Tirupati/Tirumala:The total distance from Bangalore to Tirupathi is close to 250 Kms and can be covered in within 5 hours comfortably. Some information on the various landmarks and the distance between them
- Bangalore – Hoskote : 32 KMS
- Hoskote – Kolar: 60 + Kms
- Kolar - Mulbagal – Palamner – Bangarapalaya - Chittoor: Approx 70 Kms
- Chitoor -Putalapattu – Tirupati: Approx 69 Kms
- Tirupati - Tirumala: 24 Kms (Ghat section)
From Hoskote we proceed towards Kolar - The road in this section is very crowded with lots of truck/bus traffic. The average speed you can clock here is about 60-70 Km/kr...overtaking is a challenge with only two lane roads...however good news is that there is a 4+4 lane road which is coming up. The trees on both sides of the road have been cut (very sadly) and the road expansion is in progress...I believe the road should be ready in August 2008. When we get to Kolar we don't need to get into the town...we take the by pass and keep proceeding towards Chitoor.
The next main stretch is Kolar to Chitoor -which is approximately 80 Kms...the route is Kolar -Mulbagal – Palamner – Chittoor. This is a great stretch of driving...the roads are nice (with just some bad patches!)...one can easily touch the 100-140 Km/Hr based on the car he/she drives ! The road is only a two lane one ...what makes driving good is very little traffic in this segment (may be I was lucky!)
Come Chitoor and you will hit some high traffic area...you will need to cut through the town to get onto to Tirupati...of course there is a by pass before getting into Chitoor which leads you Tirupathi road...however the road isn't great there and there aren't any signboards as well (I think I saw something like BARN residency as an indicator to this by pass)
Chitoor is also the place where people heading towards Chennai split from the NH 4 - You will take a left on NH4 to get into Chitoor and head to Tirupati and a right to get onto the Chennai road. Chitoor Tirupati road is also good...however there are three railways crossings on this road and one could get stuck there. You also need to watch out for a couple of speed breakers without any indication...I had to break really hard not to jump one of the speed breakers !!! It takes just more than hour to reach Tirupati from Chitoor.
Tirupati to Tirumala is 24 Kms and it is a small ghat section. This can be covered in about 40 minutes. Be sure you watch out for all the sign boards and only overtake at the right locations.
Two things to watch out when going from Tirupati to Tirumala:
a) Don't carry and cigarettes/drink to Tirumala - It is banned at Tirumala
b) The vehicle you are driving will need to be checked/supervised and a pass should be obtained before you start moving up hill from Alipiri (main point for moving up hill)
Tirumala surely is the place to visit, however there are some other nice temples around Tirupati/Tirumala which attract devotees. They are:
- Sri Kalahasthi - 38 Kms from Tirupati, known for its Rahu Kethu pooja.
- Alamelu Mangapuram - This is on Tiruchanoor road about 3 Kms from Tirupati
- Kanipakkam Ganapati temple, this is before Chitoor
- A Siva temple in Tirupati
- Govindaraja Swamy temple near Bheema hotel in Tirupati
I am sure there are many more ...however these are the ones which I know :)
Alright...time to take off for me...hope the above information was helpful...post your comments here...will be good to read them.
Cheers,
Vaithee
13 comments:
Good writeup Vaithee. This sure made me remember my trip.
On the contrary i believe there are two good routes to Tirupati from bangalore and the details are in my blog. I also have given the pros and cons and i've travelled in those routes ...well more than 7 times in my car.
My blog is here: http://vikasgopalakrishnan.blogspot.com/2009/08/bangalore-to-tirupati-kalahasti.html
Please comment on this if you want to and i will be getting back on your comment soon
Its very wonderful information about tirupati trip and tirupati Hotels Accommodation.Thanks for the information.After reading this i have planed to visit tiruapti.Awesome post.
Bangalore to Tirupati
First thing we booked the tickets in TTD malleshwaram the ticket cost is 50rs, 300 rs tickets are issued only at tirumala, but people don’t take the chance for 300rs ticket, because people they might think that 300rs ticket will have quick darshan, but for getting that 300rs tickets people have to wait for minimum 3hrs, in the line maximum it depends upon the crowd, after taking the 300rs tickets again inside we have to go in the line in vaikuntam q complex it takes 2 hrs, the total time of darshan will be 5 hrs, please don’t make your plans on Saturday and Sundays it will be horrible rush for 300 rs tickets, 50 rs tickets is issued at tirupati, renigunta, and alipiri from morning 5, even it will be also rush on week ends, week days the crowd is ok, but don’t take the chance, better to book the tickets in TTD malleshwaram for bangalore peoples, TTD MALLESHWARAM NUMBER (080-23315361)
We booked the darshan tickets in TTD malleshwaram for 17july 2010 Saturday the darshan timing is at 3;00pm, on Saturday july 17th 2010, we filled a fuel 35 ltrs for i10 car and we started our journey at 6:30 am in morning we took the route Kr Puram fly over, Hoskote, kolar, mulbagalu, palamner chittor and tirupati climb to the hill tirumala
Coming to road condition: from Kr puram to till kolar we have to take lot of diversions, because of the four lane construction is going on still it is not finished but the roads are good there is no pot holes, but lot of humps are there better to avoid night journey in this route, till the four lane construction is finished, but there is no proper sign boards have maintained it took us almost 2 and half hours to reach kolar, and then we had break fast in kolar woody’s , from kolar woody’s to mulbagual the road is amazing clean and neat easily we can reach 120 speed, but I driven in 80 to 90 km speed because of safety,
We took mulbagual bye bass, we have not entered into mulbagual city, from there we went to palamner, entering to Andhra, the roads are maintained very good, and well sign boards hats off to Andhra government for maintaing the good roads, palamner ghat section is really good I enjoyed well, then we took chittor bye pass, from chittor bye pass to tirupati the roads are too good and can drive easily but we should be very very carefull of opposite vechiles coming and then I have not entered into tirupati city I took bye pass route and entered to tirumala toll plaza, they will check the vechiles and we have to pay the toll charge for entering to tirumala, I reached tirumala 20 minutes, total journey time took for us 6 hrs
From bangalore to tirumala (80 to 90 kms speed driven)
After reaching tirumala we parked our car and we saw very big line for 300rs ticket, people are standing from morning to get the tickets, and we went to vaikuntam q complex and we shown 50rs ticket and we entered inside and waited for some time lot of pushings were there inside the temple in the line, 2;30 pm we entered into the line and we came out at 6;30pm and collected the ladu for 50 rs ticket 2 ladus free, for extra ladus there was lot of rush,
We got overall mile age around 18km per litre we had nice journey, again I am planning to go in my car,
For further clarification and queries people can reach me on 9620201774 for std callers need to add zero (0)
Bangalore to Tirupati
First thing we booked the tickets in TTD malleshwaram the ticket cost is 50rs, 300 rs tickets are issued only at tirumala, but people don’t take the chance for 300rs ticket, because people they might think that 300rs ticket will have quick darshan, but for getting that 300rs tickets people have to wait for minimum 3hrs, in the line maximum it depends upon the crowd, after taking the 300rs tickets again inside we have to go in the line in vaikuntam q complex it takes 2 hrs, the total time of darshan will be 5 hrs, please don’t make your plans on Saturday and Sundays it will be horrible rush for 300 rs tickets, 50 rs tickets is issued at tirupati, renigunta, and alipiri from morning 5, even it will be also rush on week ends, week days the crowd is ok, but don’t take the chance, better to book the tickets in TTD malleshwaram for bangalore peoples, TTD MALLESHWARAM NUMBER (080-23315361)
We booked the darshan tickets in TTD malleshwaram for 17july 2010 Saturday the darshan timing is at 3;00pm, on Saturday july 17th 2010, we filled a fuel 35 ltrs for i10 car and we started our journey at 6:30 am in morning we took the route Kr Puram fly over, Hoskote, kolar, mulbagalu, palamner chittor and tirupati climb to the hill tirumala
Coming to road condition: from Kr puram to till kolar we have to take lot of diversions, because of the four lane construction is going on still it is not finished but the roads are good there is no pot holes, but lot of humps are there better to avoid night journey in this route, till the four lane construction is finished, but there is no proper sign boards have maintained it took us almost 2 and half hours to reach kolar, and then we had break fast in kolar woody’s , from kolar woody’s to mulbagual the road is amazing clean and neat easily we can reach 120 speed, but I driven in 80 to 90 km speed because of safety,
We took mulbagual bye bass, we have not entered into mulbagual city, from there we went to palamner, entering to Andhra, the roads are maintained very good, and well sign boards hats off to Andhra government for maintaing the good roads, palamner ghat section is really good I enjoyed well, then we took chittor bye pass, from chittor bye pass to tirupati the roads are too good and can drive easily but we should be very very carefull of opposite vechiles coming and then I have not entered into tirupati city I took bye pass route and entered to tirumala toll plaza, they will check the vechiles and we have to pay the toll charge for entering to tirumala, I reached tirumala 20 minutes, total journey time took for us 6 hrs
From bangalore to tirumala (80 to 90 kms speed driven)
After reaching tirumala we parked our car and we saw very big line for 300rs ticket, people are standing from morning to get the tickets, and we went to vaikuntam q complex and we shown 50rs ticket and we entered inside and waited for some time lot of pushings were there inside the temple in the line, 2;30 pm we entered into the line and we came out at 6;30pm and collected the ladu for 50 rs ticket 2 ladus free, for extra ladus there was lot of rush,
We got overall mile age around 18km per litre we had nice journey, again I am planning to go in my car,
For further clarification and queries people can reach me on 9620201774 for std callers need to add zero (0)
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