         Hey, friends today I will tell you my first real life experience in Tirupati. I had gone Tirupati in my ssc vacation, we were very excited about it, we made the plan three months before my ssc exam that we will be going to tirupati balaji temple which is in Chennai. And for that we have to do registration for darshan in Mumbai itself and that also 30 days before the date, so we went to the concern office for darshan registration and to book a room for accommodation and the office was situated in sion.my ssc exam got over and my sister exam also get over after few days.
                 At last the day came for arrival the train time was at 8:30 pm we were ready with are luggage and all eatables. We went to CST station and got into the train the journey was of approx. 21hrs. We all were very happy we played ludo, snake and ladder, antakshiri and various other games in the train and we reach the renigunta station in the next day evening we got down the station and came out there was a bus depot outside the station we ask the conductor that we have to go to the temple so he asked us to go and seat in the bus the bus took us up the mountain as the temple was above the mountain everything was unknown &new for us we were unable to understand there language.
The bus goes round and round above the mountain, and at a point between the journey there was the checking of all the luggage’s and after 2hrs we reach our destination. We asked a person over there for the office and my father went to the office and took the keys for the room in which we will be staying we were very new to the surrounding, and we were unable to communicate with the people there as they were of some different religion and speaking different languages. We gone into the room and all were resting as we were gone through a long journey. We take our meal and went to sleep. Next day we got up early and started enjoying the surrounding there was pour air and greenery near the temple and something different was the food which the people eat in the south there was mainly the hotel serving south Indian food such as idli, dosa, rice with sambar,rasam or buttermilk coconut chutney etc.
Our darshan time was in the afternoon so we gone to the temple, there was a rush for the darshan many people were standing in the que for the darshan we got the darshan after 4hrs in the que after the darshan the next day we had gone for the site seeing there was various sites such as Akash ganga, Paap vinasham, natural arc, museum etc. after that the next day we came down the mountain in tirupati were was also various temple such as padmavati Mata temple, venugopal temple etc.
                We all were very happy as we meet with a new religion and custom; it was a wonderful experience for me and my family. But at last the day came when we have to go back to our normal live and go to our home. I was very sad because we have to leave. So we do last shopping and purchased various things for all our relative, and neighbor we were going with many good memories and all the fantastic movement we had over there. The type of communication that we had we the people. The type of food we ate and all the wonderful time we had over there.
In the morning we got up early as the train was at 9:00am in the morning we all get ready by 7:00am and leaved for the station and reach the station at 8:30am, in the morning. We got in to train and said a good bye to Tirupati, we were very sad as we were leaving but at the same time we were also very happy as we were going with many good memories we reached Mumbai by 7:00am in the morning the next day, and now I am in fybms and I have visited the temple for twice but now also whenever I remember those memories I gets very excited, so with this I would like to tell you a good bye…….
PUBLISHED BY : JASNEET SETHI
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