Tirupati Tourism

Culture

The spiritual city of Andhra Pradesh, Tirupati celebrates every Hindu festival like Sankranti, Ugadi, Kartik Poornima, Deepavali etc. that can be experienced, but few of the festivals stand aside that will make the trip worthy of our time, Srivari Brahmotsava is an event of nine days, celebrated between the month of September – October that attracts lakhs of devotees and tourist from all over India. There are processions held during the festival, where the deities are escorted around the city. Chakra Snanam is another festival held in Padmavathi Temple, where a huge number of devotees come to get a dip in the holy water of a tank behind the temple. Tirupati Ganga Jatara is a week-long carnival held during the month of May in Tirupati, worshipping the Goddess Gangamma. During Gokulashtami, the ISKCON temple celebrates by illuminating lights and offering prayers to Sri Krishna, the celebration also includes Utlotsavam, Kirtana, and Parayanam.

Cuisine

Being a fact that Tirupati was once in Tamil Nadu, the cuisine here is a mixed culture of Telegu and Tamil Food. The generous use of chili, peanuts and five spices with coconut milk, tomato and tamarind can be found in curries and vegetables. Rice is the staple food with lentils can be found commonly in the restaurants at the city. Andhra Pradesh has a large number of dishes in Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian sector, but being the sacred city of Hindus, Tirupati only practices Vegetarian Food inside the city. The people who visit the temple finds it very auspicious to eat the temple food that is served in coconut leaves which involves curd rice, tamarind rice, sweet pongal, murukku, dosa, payasam etc. The most famous local sweet dish in Tirupati is ‘Sweet Rice’ and the huge ‘Laddus’ that everyone gets from Tirupati Balaji as prasadam.

• Panther’s Multicuisine Restaurant
• Lasa Multicuisine Restaurant
• Green Park Multicuisine Restaurant
• Hotel Bliss
• Zodiac Multicuisine Restaurant