One more on the list of my unforgettable experiences is this visit where I visited SIMHACHALAM and DEVIPURAM on the SAME DAY (FRIDAY - JULY 1st) days before my birthday.
Left hyderabad via Navin travels (navinbus.com) and booked a ticket and went to LR nagar via pickup van from the designated pickup point - Old rtc bus stand where i got my monthly bus pass which is opposite to MGBS bus stand.
On way - a person who could not control his urge to pee gave us a little bit of comedy in the journey.
From LR nagar - left for VIZAG - departure ( around ~ 8:15 pm)
Reached VIZAG ( my first ever visit ) early morning at 6:30 - 7 am.
Vizag is beautiful - all around you can see only mountains and stuff and lot of greenary with building lined up downhill.
There some auto wala guided me to the bus stop where i got bus ( god willing) to go directly to the Simhachalam temple on the hill.
After reaching here - took bath at Gangadhara Falls which is source of water falls - went and did sandhyavandam in the tripurantaka swamy ( lord shiva) temple. which is just nearby to that falls.
Then keeping my luggage in the luggage counter and in dhoti and shawl ( nothing else) went and stood in the free darshan queue.
Once inside had peaceful darshan and the there is special queue ticket here as well.
Rs.200/- for entry into the Garbha gudi -- As i could not have proper darshan - Lord varaha lakshmi narasimha swamy is in the form of Linga covered up with Sri devi and Bhoo devi on the either side, and the nija roopa darshanam happening only on akshya tritiya day , and after giving it a lot of thought and deciding having darshanam is important than money - paid rs.200/- and went inside garbha gudi for darshanam. Had a very good darshanam of the lord varaha narasimha swamy, and then went came out and went for Annaprasadam -
They have unique fingerprint - record - counter - for purpose of counting how many peoplemhad food there. Also there is goshala nearby.
After that - i went to the "GAYATRI PEETHAM" and had darshan of Matha - Veda Matha - who is looking as if made from White shila.
Then via bus came down and went straight to the RTC DWARAKA bus complex ( bus stand) and from there took a bus to Sabbavaram
Sabbavaram is another 1 hour or so journey from the Vizag rtc bus stand and upon reaching there a young college girl helped me by telling me how to reach devipuram from there.
Devipuram entrance is around 20 mins from Sabbavaram bus stop and from the entrance one has to walk in the forest like area to reach the temple.
I took a sharing auto from Sabbavaram to devipuram arch entrance point - paid 10rs
From there walked to the devipuram temple and there had a good darshanam of the devi.
Here there is an entrance fee of 20rs.
First god directed to visit Kamakhya peetham where i could in reality - YONI Shaped lingam temple and it was amazing. We can touch and pray - there - amazing experience.
From there visit was to Karya Siddhi Ganapati Temple and then MERU SRI CHAKRA TEMPLE which houses all the shakti devis of the srichakaram in their idol form- A unique temple indeed.
I was glad to visit this place - i think god mother made me visit this place - that too on friday - first visit - amazing
Then it was almost 6pm - at 6:30pm - there is aarathi and then i had nice talk with people running the temple and got some detail about the temple
From there i was invited to have food - annaprasadam - and then i was dropped at the entrance point of the arch - where i got the bus to ANAKAPALLE bus stand another major point like Eluru.
Here from the bus stand - at a walkable distance -there is a bypass where all the major buses pass via to major other destinations - like hyderabad etc.
Because of this - there are some travel agencies here which operate and book tickets.
I got my ticket booked here (Government services are very costly.) on a private bus and came to hyderabad on the morning of July 2nd and got down at SR nagar bus stop and there went to canara bank and did my pending bank work and came to room around afternoon.
Points to remember
1 - Vizag bus RTC is very far from Simhachalam but there are many many buses to the temple -
2- Onway to bus stand you will find the railway station where the buses stop - at the entrance
3- From simchalam hill base - an arch is there - from there directly catch a bus to Sabbavaram
4- From sabbavaram get a sharing auto - 20mins journey to devipuram arch entrance.
5- To go back to hyderabad or any other place - just come ANAKAPALLE from devipuram arch point i.e. entrance point and go to the bypass and book tickets at the travel agency counter which is cheaper than the government AC service.
Jai veda matha
Left hyderabad via Navin travels (navinbus.com) and booked a ticket and went to LR nagar via pickup van from the designated pickup point - Old rtc bus stand where i got my monthly bus pass which is opposite to MGBS bus stand.
On way - a person who could not control his urge to pee gave us a little bit of comedy in the journey.
From LR nagar - left for VIZAG - departure ( around ~ 8:15 pm)
Reached VIZAG ( my first ever visit ) early morning at 6:30 - 7 am.
Vizag is beautiful - all around you can see only mountains and stuff and lot of greenary with building lined up downhill.
There some auto wala guided me to the bus stop where i got bus ( god willing) to go directly to the Simhachalam temple on the hill.
After reaching here - took bath at Gangadhara Falls which is source of water falls - went and did sandhyavandam in the tripurantaka swamy ( lord shiva) temple. which is just nearby to that falls.
Then keeping my luggage in the luggage counter and in dhoti and shawl ( nothing else) went and stood in the free darshan queue.
Once inside had peaceful darshan and the there is special queue ticket here as well.
Rs.200/- for entry into the Garbha gudi -- As i could not have proper darshan - Lord varaha lakshmi narasimha swamy is in the form of Linga covered up with Sri devi and Bhoo devi on the either side, and the nija roopa darshanam happening only on akshya tritiya day , and after giving it a lot of thought and deciding having darshanam is important than money - paid rs.200/- and went inside garbha gudi for darshanam. Had a very good darshanam of the lord varaha narasimha swamy, and then went came out and went for Annaprasadam -
They have unique fingerprint - record - counter - for purpose of counting how many peoplemhad food there. Also there is goshala nearby.
After that - i went to the "GAYATRI PEETHAM" and had darshan of Matha - Veda Matha - who is looking as if made from White shila.
Then via bus came down and went straight to the RTC DWARAKA bus complex ( bus stand) and from there took a bus to Sabbavaram
Sabbavaram is another 1 hour or so journey from the Vizag rtc bus stand and upon reaching there a young college girl helped me by telling me how to reach devipuram from there.
Devipuram entrance is around 20 mins from Sabbavaram bus stop and from the entrance one has to walk in the forest like area to reach the temple.
I took a sharing auto from Sabbavaram to devipuram arch entrance point - paid 10rs
From there walked to the devipuram temple and there had a good darshanam of the devi.
Here there is an entrance fee of 20rs.
First god directed to visit Kamakhya peetham where i could in reality - YONI Shaped lingam temple and it was amazing. We can touch and pray - there - amazing experience.
From there visit was to Karya Siddhi Ganapati Temple and then MERU SRI CHAKRA TEMPLE which houses all the shakti devis of the srichakaram in their idol form- A unique temple indeed.
I was glad to visit this place - i think god mother made me visit this place - that too on friday - first visit - amazing
Then it was almost 6pm - at 6:30pm - there is aarathi and then i had nice talk with people running the temple and got some detail about the temple
From there i was invited to have food - annaprasadam - and then i was dropped at the entrance point of the arch - where i got the bus to ANAKAPALLE bus stand another major point like Eluru.
Here from the bus stand - at a walkable distance -there is a bypass where all the major buses pass via to major other destinations - like hyderabad etc.
Because of this - there are some travel agencies here which operate and book tickets.
I got my ticket booked here (Government services are very costly.) on a private bus and came to hyderabad on the morning of July 2nd and got down at SR nagar bus stop and there went to canara bank and did my pending bank work and came to room around afternoon.
Points to remember
1 - Vizag bus RTC is very far from Simhachalam but there are many many buses to the temple -
2- Onway to bus stand you will find the railway station where the buses stop - at the entrance
3- From simchalam hill base - an arch is there - from there directly catch a bus to Sabbavaram
4- From sabbavaram get a sharing auto - 20mins journey to devipuram arch entrance.
5- To go back to hyderabad or any other place - just come ANAKAPALLE from devipuram arch point i.e. entrance point and go to the bypass and book tickets at the travel agency counter which is cheaper than the government AC service.
Jai veda matha
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