Anantapur

Anantapur has a population of over 500,000 and is well connected by road and rail. It is located between Hyderabad, Bangalore Highway and Railway line. The nearest Airport is at Puttaparty 70 km. Sri Krishnadevaraya University and JNT University are in the city. 200 km south of Anantapur is Bangalore and 350 km north of Anantpur is Hyderabad.
The primary language is Telugu. Getting along with English alone is also not very difficult.

Anantapur is well connected with major cities like Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore with regular and frequent train and bus services.

By train

You have Garib Rath service to Hyderabad /bangalore.

By bus

Along with the government-operated APSRTC bus services, there are many private operators with very good bus services from Hyderabad, Vellore and Bengaluru.
Anantapur is well connected with outside city through Road-ways. There are above 8 private travels for Hyderabad (like, SNSMS, Sri Balaji, Kesineni, Diwakar, Ganesh...). Also, many other services to Bengaluru, and many short services to the nearby towns & villages.
One private service running from Kurnool to Vellore Daily, through Anantapur is also there.

• Arts collegeto see ancient architecture.

• Cheruvu KattaThis is holy place both for Hindus and Muslims. All the temples are located at one place (Shirdi Sai Baba, Ayyappa, Ganesh & Hanuman Temples)

• Clock Tower.which is in the centre of the city

• ISKCON Temple

  address: Hare Krishna Land, Somuladoddi, National Highway No.7
  just 7 km from town...ISCKON which has recently constructed.

• Sarada Temple

  address: at SaradaNagar
  It's a Peaceful place and Very famous.

• BlooMoon Restaurant

  phone: +919739213876
  address: NH-7,Gooty,anantapur
  IT is Out door Restaurant

Itineraries

• Little Flowers College of Education

• Bajjis- is famous in 1st road, near Police Training College

• BiriyaniSpice touch

• Dosa- is famous in I-Road Gurukrupa hotel, Sujatha Hotel, Indira Priyadarshini Hotel-near Clock Tower.

• IDLY- is famous in Oldtown near to Krishna theatre, Mr.IDLY near Srikantam Circle

• LASSI- is famous back to Medinova Hospital.

• Oaligalu- yummy sweet dish in old town.

• Poori- is famous opp. Emrald Restaurant.

• For non-veg.......Swathi daba is famous at Gooty Road.

• Gongooras- at national highway towards b'lore.

• Spice Touchnear Hotel Sapthagiri Balla is also good.

For vegies.....

• Adi Murthi Tiffin Center- Famous for varieties of Dosa's.

• Madhu Restaurantis famous for north Indian dishes as per quality and price.

• Manogna Restaurant

• Srisagar Restaurant

Nannari (a kind of root beer) and butter milk are the most consumed drinks in summer. Bottles of nannari syrup (₹45/ 750ml bottle ) are usually available at stores.

• Amaravathi Lodgeat raju road

• Annapurna lodge

  address: at raju road

• Mayura Lodge

• Nama Residency

  address: at Subash Road

• Naveed Residency

• Sampoorna Lodgenear Sreekantam Circle

• Sapthagiri Balla Lodge

  phone: +91 8554 220914-9

• SRS Residency

• Komala Residency

  phone: +91 8554 234356 (mobile)
  address: Beside APSRTC Bus stand, Opp. Petrol Bunk

B.S.N.L.(Cellone) has wide mobile coverage.

Anantapur has many nearby attractions to visit.

• Karnataka neighbouring state.

• Aluru Kona you can visit this water fall near to Tadipatri is good to see.
• Babiah Dargah in Penukonda - Dargah of 12 Th Century Sufi Saint Hazrat Syed Shah Baba Fakruddin Saharwardy(R.A)
• Belum caves-- famous tourist attraction near Tadipatri.
• Dharmavaram - Famous for silk sarees. 40km from Anantapur city.
• Kadiri - Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple 90 km from Anantapur.
• Lepakshi - Biggest Nandi in India, and temples built between 13-14 century AD.14 km from Hindupur.
• Pennahobilam - Lord Narasimha Swamy temple on a hillock, 30 km from Anantapur.
• Penukonda - Forts and temples built by Sri Krishnadevaraya king. 65 km from Anantapur City.
• Puttaparthy - Abode of Sri Sri Sri Satya Sai Baba (Prashantinilayam) 34 km from Hindupur.
• Tadipatri, Hemavati, Penakacherla dam, PABR dam, Gooty fort, Rayadurg fort are the other places to visit.
• Timmamma marrimanu (Banyan tree) which covers an area of 5 acres and has its name in the Guinness book of records, 120 km from Anantapur.