SrI: Dear Sri Nrusimha BhakthAs : A good friend shared his experiences on traveling to Ahobilam via TaLappAkkam . I think this information would be useful to thsoe who plan on trips to Ahobilam during the upcoming ChAthurmAsyam season . SrImatE RaamAnujAya Nama: V.Sadagopan ************************************************************** " Pranams! Recently, I had the bhagyam of visiting Ahobilam on Narasimha chaturdasi day. We (my son and I) hired a Toyota INNOVA (car-van) from Hyderabad; we started at 7:15 am on May 17th, and reached Ahobilam at 12:45 pm after stopping for lunch in Allagadda). Ahobilam is located 25 km (from Allagadda)interior from Hyderabad- Tirupati Highway. From Ahobilam, we started on May 20th at 7 am and reached Tallapaka (Sri Annamacharya's birth place on the way to Tirupati) and reached Tallapaka by 10:30 am after stopping for breakfast in Cudupha and briefly stopping by in Vontimitta. We attended the opening cermony of the 600th birth anniversary of Annamacharya; There is a new 108 feet tall vigraham of Annamacharya, and a new Sri Venkateswara swamy temple nearby. The vigraham and this new temple are located on (very close to) the highway on the way to Rajampet (not in the exact Tallapaka village) approximately 10 to 15 km from village of Vontimitta. On the way to Tallapaka, we stopped at a very ancient Sri Rama temple in Vontimitta. The great Telugu Poet Potana has dedicated Telugu version of Srimath Bhagavatham to Lord Sri Rama at this Temple. We started at 1:00 pm in Tallapaka and reached Tirupati by 3:00 pm (as there was not much traffic). In short, it takes less than 5 hrs by car from Tirupati to go to Ahobilam. Please don't miss the site of 108 feet tall beautiful vigraham of Sri Annamacharya. At least for this, road travel is well worth it. In Ahobilam, Sri BadriNarayan swamy the manager of Malola guest house was very corteous and helpful. The 15 km, 1500 rupees jeep ride, to go to Sri Pavana Narasimha swamy temple, is a very rough rough, but well worth it. Sri Bargava Narasimha is accessible by auto ride (rough ride). The trekking to Jwala and Malola is very very worth it, but make sure to find when the priest would be available in Jwala. We were very lucky that we could attend the abhishekam of Sri Jwala Narasimha Swamy. After performing the puja, the same priest goes to Malola. We took the guide suggested by the manager; The guide is necessary or trekking as he would know the easiest path. The other five are easily accessible on the way to Jwala or Pavana. Sri Badari swamy (mANAGER) provided all the info. Jai Sriman Narayana. With all glories to Lord Sri Venkateswara, I remain, " ------------------------------------ Oppiliappan Koil Varadachari Sadagopan http://www.sadagopan.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:Oppiliappan-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:Oppiliappan-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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