Couple of weeks back I visited Vellore Golden temple (Vellore,TN, India) and here's somethng abt our trip.
Actually We few of our frens started from Bangalore by a car to chittoor (AP, India), coz our intention was to visit Kanipakam Ganesh temple first and then go to Vellore golden temple.It took some 3 hrs for us to reach Chittoor and stayed in a lodge there. In the mrng we planned to go for Paalabhishekam which will start @ 7.30, we strtd by 6 AM and rchd Kanipakkam temple from chittoor in 20 mins (Kanipakkam is an village near by chittoor). But aftr rchng there we came to know that we will have to get tickects for Paalabhishekam which will be issued @ 6 AM sharp for that particular day (No advance registrations allowed). So we couldn't go for Paalabhishekam. Then we took special darshan tickects (Rs 51/- Nijaroopadarshanam) since free dharshan has been stopped and will start by 8AM only (if u plan fr free dharshan better to go aftr 8AM) it took some 45 mins for us to have darshan (as it was a weekend (sat), normal days it wont take that much time ) then we started to vellore golden temple.for that we will hav to come to chittoor and then go to Vellore Golden temple from there.
We started by 10 AM from chittoor to VGT and reached there by 11.15 AM by car.
Note : If u wish to go by any public transport other than own vehicle here are the details
Reach to Vellore (from anywhere say 'Bangalore' ) from there you will get share autos or private vehicles to 'SRIPURAM' (village where Golden temple is located)
There was a huge crowd as it was a weekend (There are two options one is normal darshan (no charges/tickets ) other special darshan of Rs 200/- which will take hardly 1/2 hr for darshan ). I would suggest you to prefer normal darshan, it wont take more than 1 hr and in normal darshan u will walk through the entire praakara (circumference) of GT and then go for darshan. In this way u can have better view @ the temple. We prefered Normal darshan.
@ suggestion : dont take any electronic items (cams/ mobiles/ipods etc) with you they wont let u carry them with u. U can keep them in a paid locker provided by VGT, better to keep them @ first gate (Rs 15/- per item) itslef if u managed to take them inside @ Gate 1, u will be charged more @ gate 2 (Rs 60/- per item) (@Gate 2 electronic scanning system will be there).
Then we finished our darshan and returned.
