Last year, I move towards southern parts of India as a devotee. During 16 days long travel me and my team visit and worshipped many gods and temples over there. In hindu religion all the worshipping place sorounding are also taken as holy places. Even you are not allowed enter those area with Half-pants and Jeans. Visiting Tirupati (Tirumala) the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Vaari Temple and sorroundings at Tirupati Hills, as well with Sri Govindaraja Swamy Temple, Iskcon Temple, Sri Venugopala Swamy Temple, Sri Kalyana Venkateswara Swamy Temple, Sri Kapileswara Swamy Temple, Sri Padmavathi Ammavari Temples at the bottom of Tirupati City are popular holy places. Every hindu devotee wish to visit those places once in their life, but here are some things to consider: You cannot be with
- leather wearings
- smartphone, mobiles and camera as belongings
- luggage/baggage allowed
- half-pants (for ladies and gents), tight fittings jeans and leggings for ladies and
- footwears
Don’t worry if you have those type of belongings then you have option to keep them safe at cloakroom (available at almost all biggest temples in India) with smallest charges (also free in some temples).
You have to practice travelling barefoot in holy places of india during summer, when the temperature is around 42 degree celcius and humidity is very low. It is obvious that you already feel dehydrated on temperature like this, but once you practice yourself then you can have easier visit over there, if you stay or walk barefooted on the road you can not stay for more than a minutes. It feels you keep your feet on boiling water or on a fire and you feet may have symptoms of swelling or inflammation, better to use Quench cream. There will be long queue to visit indian temples, pilgrimage have options to enter in some previlage categories also like if you pay privelage fee (fee are different for different Temples) then you can enter to fast-track which may shorter than free queue even in some temple entering into previlage queue may take 2-3 hours of queue. In main temple of Tirupati you are provided with token to enter in late hour, might be 7-8 hours after your registration for the queue. Once you got the token you can move outside the temple area and visit other places, then enter into the hall (like a parapit at stadium, foods and water provided time-to-time), after entering into the hall you’are shifted to another hall in certain duration and around 3 hours you will be at core temples, you cannot stand or wait on a queue, you have to walk slowly. Visiting temples at Tirumala is quite systematic than other temples at India.