Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Vacation July 17th to 22nd 2006

I and Balaji went on piligrimage to North Andhra for 6 days.
We started on 17.7.2006 in our new Indica.
We started at 10.30 AM and reached Annavaram on same day at 8.30 PM. We stayed there at Prakash Sadan. Next day morning, we performed vratam there and started for Visakhapatnam. Enroute, we had darshan of Talupulamma devi, at Tuni. We reached Vsp at 2PM. After attending the ceremony of Prakash we started for Srikakulam. We reached there at 8PM and checked in Hotel Nagavali.
Next day we went to Arisivilli (http://www.arasavallisungod.org) and Srimukha Lingam (http://www.indiantemples.com/Andhra/mukha.html). Again we came back to Vsp and had dinner at Sridevi's house. We started for Kakinada and reached there at 12AM. We checked in Hotel Sri Durga. In the morning we went to Draksharamam temple (http://www.templenet.com/Andhra/draksha.html) and Kotiphali temple (http://eastgodavari.nic.in/Kotipalli.html). Evening we went to Kumararamam temple (http://www.templenet.com/Andhra/kumararama.html) and Puruhootika temple (http://mypurohith.com/Pilgrimages/Pitapuram.asp).
From there we started and reached Tanuku at 9PM.We checked in Hotel Sri Devi. Next day we went to Bhimavaram to see Somaramam Temple(http://www.world66.com/asia/southasia/india/andhrapradesh/westgodavari/sights/bhimavaram) and to Palakollu to see Ksheeraramam (http://www.templenet.com/Andhra/ksheerarama.html). In between we had darshan of Maavoollamma devi at Bhimavaram. After having lunch, we went to Antarvedi (http://eastgodavari.nic.in/Antharvedi.html), Ainavalli (http://eastgodavari.nic.in/ainavalli.html) and MuktikantaKshana Mukteswaram (http://www.pilgrimage-india.com/east-india-pilgrimage/mukteswara-temple.html).
Next day we went to Mandapalli (http://eastgodavari.nic.in/Mandapalli.html) , Ryalli (http://www.saigan.com/heritage/temple/jmkswami.html) and Chinna Tirupathi (http://www.indiasite.com/andhrapradesh/temples.html).
From there we started at 3.30Pm and reached Hyderabad at 1AM on Sunday morning(23.7.2006).

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