I have been to kanchipuram in 2017 to visit famous temples in and around kanchipuram. We actually went to tirupathi and after darshan we have planned to go kanchi specially to visit Vardharaja swamy oerumal temple which us also famous for golden lizard.
We had darshan at tirupathi and started at around 6: 00 pm from bus stand.We got direct bus from tirupathi to kanchi. we reached their by 9: 30pm which 2 to 3 hours journey with haults. Later when we reached the destination, we are unable to communicate with people in locak language tamil.
Finally we got elderly person who able to communicate with us in english. He is very helpful to navigate the whole description of temples around and advised to stay in a room near to temple, As it was late, tenples will open early in the morning 7 for darshan.
We took an auto for nearest place to temple sangasaipet and had dinner in hotel which is good. early in the morning, we took an auto who guided us to visit 5 famous temples in kanchi, kamakshamma, shivalayam, padmavathi, varadharajaswamy and others with a package of 800 rs.
Firstly, we visited famous temple kanchi kamakshamma whish is one of the shakthi peetas by kanchi janakoti peetam. We have mesmerized to see the temple architecture with giant gopuram, we can see a huge well in middle of the temple. kanchi is famous for its old architecture temples.
Later we had darshan in all the four temples and went for golden lizard temple varadha raja perumal temple. When we are about to reach darshan was closed and will open at 4: 00pm.
We asked to wait auto, who refused and asked for more money, we agreed and went for shopping, as kanchi is famous for its silk clothes, sarees. we along with family went to shopping and had lunch in local hotel which is famous for puttu tamil nadu curry.
At last we had darshan in varadharaja swamy temple whichbis old and sacred peaceful place with full of crowd. We found foreigners who visited temple with tourist guides.Temple has many sculptures to see with old history. We saw golden lizard which is located at top of the roof in both gold and silver.
We had taken all the prasadas near temple puluhora, laddu, pongal, wada. we can take the golden lizard frames near temple to put in our homes. we hindus had a belief that , we will be blessed by touching golden lizard.
I hope you all had a nice journey to tamilnadu kanchipuram. You can reach kanchipuram from chennai.
Route: hyd to tirupati-kanchipuram-vellore-golden temple-hyderabad.