I went to Guruvayoor for the first time, its my dream to visit Guruvayoor. Inspite of huge demand there is one train from Hyderabad towards Guruvayoor i.e Shabari Exp(if u want to have reservation pls book 2 to 3 month in advance), i dont know y SCR announce one more train in this route. Though we visited in June 1st week, its too hot in AP mainly Telangana region.
After crossing Tirupathi, there is lot of change in the atmosphere, after crossing coimbathore, palakkad real kerala started really wt a plsce grennery every where there is completely opposite atmosphere here compare to AP.Its raining slightly, very cold, no hot, simply superb atmosphere.After long 24 hrs of 1264 kms we reached Thrissur, Thrissur is a district so city is very good & we stayed at our family friends house at Thrissur.
After relaxation we started to Guruvayoor, Bustand is very near to Railway station we reache in 10 mins form our house, though its a Govt bus stand almost 95 % buses are private I dont know why, I observed thrissur city is very well maintained instead of heavy rain water will not stay on roads & will go to drains in very short span, but in hyderabad for jus 10 mins rain entire city will got to drain.
In thrissur city every where roads are one way traffic.No traffic jams, no traffic violations & mainly people of locality are very well awarenessed in all aspects.
After 45 mins of journey we finally reached Guruvayoor, In betweek Thrissu & guruvayoor what a houses, beautiful & richest houses I really shocked to see that, reason is almost 60-70% families of that locality among one or 2 persons are in out of Country so almost all are sound parties there.Its heavily raining at Guruvayooor.There are many hotels in Guruvayoor (we have wide variety of choices among hotels budget wise also).We finally stayed at Hotel, hotel staff are courtesy less fellows, they dont know, Telugu or Hindi or English only malayalam, useless they cannot understand ours & we vice versa, Room rent is 500/ day.
Temple timings-opens at 3.00 Am in the morning.It was evening we reached temple, there was a big cue as its sunday, we taken almost 2 hrs to finish darshan, its one more important view is gents have to wear dhothi & kurtha then only they are allowed inside the temple, security arrangements were excellent, finally we have darshaned God pleasantly & excellently, temple inside arrangements are excellent, though its not famous as tirupathi but definitely its a very best sacred palce amog all vishnu temples.We also darshaned again next day & started to Trissur, there shopping is also very good.
I dint like food at all, there were many hotels but worst food & only AP food only is good in south, After good darshan we reached Trissur & reached Hyderabad next day.
Please visit Guruvayoor & enjoy Kerala nature & atmosphere,
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