throgs neck bridge toll cost AP State Museum MUSEUM (Map p898; Public Gardens Rd, Nampally; admission 10, camera/video 100/500; h

Puttaparthi is most easily reached from Bengaluru, 160km south; nine KSRTC buses (express/ Volvo 110/220, four hours) and eight trains (sleeper/3AC/2AC 133/323/420, three hours) head here daily. The KSRTC offi ce (%288938) is next to the bus station.

AP State Museum MUSEUM (Map p898; Public Gardens Rd, Nampally; throgs neck bridge toll cost admission 10, camera/video 100/500; h10.30am5pm Sat-Thu) The continually throgs neck bridge toll cost renovated State Museum hosts a rather dusty collection of important archaeological finds from the area, as well as a Buddhist sculpture gallery, with some relics throgs neck bridge toll cost of the Buddha and an exhibit on Andhra s Buddhist history. There are also Jain and bronze sculpture galleries, a decorative-arts gallery and a 4500-year-old Egyptian mummy. The museum, like the gorgeous Legislative Assembly building (Map p 898 ) down the road (both commissioned by the seventh throgs neck bridge toll cost nizam), is floodlit at night.