Bhadrachalam visit Sept. 3-4-2016. (Gowri Festival Day)

Having taken a bus pass went around koti and place and purchased pants at
Departure from hyderabad on 3rd or take as 4th at 12.30am

Reached Bhadrachalam on 4th morning. From the RTC bus stand one has to walk through the archway for around 1km to reach the temple. Since the lodges are costly, i went direct to Godavari river and finished bathing and then from there went to a neatby Narasimha temple which is found on way to the Sri Sita Rama temple. I went up there and did sandhyavandane. From here went to the main temple and took a ticket for Antaralaya Darshan and went inside direct and peacefully had a very good darshan of lord sri rama and his parivar.
It was quite fulfilling at last to have had this darshan after postponing this trip for quite sometime. Also hadAnna prasadam (the token. Here also it starts around 10am like in kanakadurga temple).

From here went to Annadana chatram for prasadam and had a hearty meal. Next was to take a second trip to the godavari river for a relaxation session. From godavari river hired a sharing auto (up-down Rs. 100/-) for visiting Parnashala - Dandakaranya - Vanavasa days.

Nice place with a temple. Its around 45km (one way) from the Main temple. Anyways as usual Matha arranged for my ride sharing my ride with a couple soon to be married, a bangalore native working here in telangana, amd his assistant (total 5 including me plus the auto driver). The drive to parnashala took us to a place first where it was said Sita devi was staying during the monthly event of ladies and here we can find it is claimed saree marking and vastram(uttariyam) of Sri rama (as a dark black line) and small depression in the rock saying where they played a popular game in kannada known as aluguli mane along with a Sri ramas footprint markings. From here went to the parnashala which is right in front of godavari river. They have developed it very nicely and also it has shiva temple along with the Sri rama temple inside one compound. Had a good time and from there came back to Bhadrachalam RTC bus stand. By this time ut had started raining very heavily and i asked the auto drive to drop me directly to the bus stand.

After waiting till 7.45pm got into hyderabad bus. (actually there were 2 buses to hyderabad but didn't go because bith if would have reached hyderabad in midnight.

The journey time in total was 7 and half hours. So it was better to reach early in morning and so choose this time bus.

Points to be noted -

1)Papikondlu is almost one day trip for which tickets are availbale but one has to reach the bhadrachalam temple area by early morning 7 or 7.30am

2) lodges are costly. The central reception and the free chatram is very dirty. Have to try the Haritha lodge (telangana government sponsored).

3)Nitya kalayanotsava in Bhadrachalam very prominent event.

4) Nitya annadana ticket given in main temple itself. For the annadana place one has to come out and walk to the place which is around 3 mins.

5) There is a goshala

6) Motor Boating available - Godavari river.

7) For buses main points

BHADRACHALAM - 7.45pm
KOTTAGUDAM-8.45pm KAMMAM- 11pm
Hyderabad - 3.40am - 5th sept

So a journey started on 4th sept midnight at 12.30am at mgbs successfully completed on 5th Sept early morning 3.40am.

Bhadrachalam - hyderabad = almost 8hours of journey.

KRISHNA PUSHKARA 2016 and JOGULAMBA TEMPLE VISIT

Krishna pushkara is an event that takes place once in 12 years or so when Jupiter enters virgo.

Left hyderabad at 10.30pm having dinner and there got direct bus koti.

From there walked to Mgbs bus stand and there got approached an information booth setup specially for this event and asked them how to visit the jogulamba. I was told to go to kurnool and from there to Alampur to go to Jogulamba which is a shakthipeetam.

Boarded alagadda (ahobhilam) bus and reached kurnool. Started at 12.15am and reached kurnool at 4.30 am.

Here too special bus arrangements are made for people visiting pushkara event.

I got into a bus going to beechupally and will need to go to this place and take PUSHKARA bath here.

It takes 45mins to reach beechupally from kurnool bus stand. On way you get gadwal railway station.

After reaching, had pushkara snanam and also told the pushkara mantra and procedure of throwing sand collected from the bank of the river. Did sandhyvandanam and had darshan of Famous beechupally hamuman temple and also rama and lakshmi hayagreeva along with Matha (saraswarthi) temple and had puliyogre.

Reached bus stand to go to jogulamba temple. From beechupally came to alampur chowrasta (alampur x road) and then got an auto to jogulamba temple. The jogulamba ghat is called gondimalla ghat and this is where krishna river is...

Near the jogulamba temple the tungabhadra river flows which then joins krishna at this the above said gondimalla ghat. From Alampur x road it is around 35 mins journey.

Had wonderful Darshan of Matha jogulamba, sri bala brahmeshwara, and the remaining of nava brahma temples. At around 1.10pm left for kurnool to get a bus back to hyderabad