Sri Padmavathi Ammavaari Temple, Tirupati

It is believed that after a visit to Lord Balaji at Tirumala, one has to visit Sri Padmavathy Ammavari Temple.
After darshan at Tirumala, we had lunch and then proceeded to this temple around 04:00 PM.
I was told that the temple is open all day with a break between 06:00PM and 07:00PM. So we planned accordingly.
We took the Rs100 ticket and it was less crowded compared to the other lines. Since we had a car journey back to Chennai ahead of us, we were short of time and we managed to finish darshan in about 30 minutes. We also got a laddu free with that ticket. 🙂
Volunteers here are even more high-handed and I personally did not like either the pujaris or the officials in the temple. The priests eye money even before giving the prasadam by explicitly indicating with the rupee notes in their hand. It was like “If you want prasadam, give money”. Pathetic !
What mattered in the end was I had a glimpse of Ammavaaru and it was enough !!