Ootacamund is a hill station located in Nilgiri hills. Udagamandalam is the offical name for the town. Ooty stands at a height of 7,500 feet above sea level. We reached Metupalayam by train from chennai and took a cab to Ooty to our stay at Holiday Inn.
View of Ooty from Hotel Holiday Inn.
Train details - Number 2671 from Chennai to Metupalayam & 2672 from Metupalayam to Chennai. On reaching Metupalayam you can take the Nilgiris passenger train operated by Nilgiris Mountain Railway, this train is primarily run to connect towns of Ooty, Coonoor & Kotagiri.
View of Ooty on a Bright sunny day
Everybody takes pictures of Ooty during sunny & rainy days, here is the picture of Ooty by Night.
Ooty has a stunning beauty & deep green valley for which the Britishers named it " Queen Of Hills". So how did the Britishers get to this place - Nilgiri hills was the part of Chera Empire in ancient times. Later to fall into Ganga dynasty and then to Hoysala empire by 12 century. After which it became part of Mysore under Tipu Sulthan, who latter surrendered to the British Empire by 18 century. The said part of our history & the present times is poverty, John Sullivan the then governer of Coimbatore provience who liked the climate around the place, started buying land from the local tribe people (Kotas, Toda & Krumba); often buying square kilometres of land in a day for the price of few meals.
It was a joy taking these pictures, I have spent quite a lot of time in the garden, childrens park & other places. So if you're a hobbiest, make sure that you spend a lot of time with the flowers and insects. There are a pure treat for your lenses.
Below picture was experimental, but I guess it turned out to be a good one.
The below picture was one of those shots which I had been trying in the city life and was not able to capture one. But in Ooty the bees have so many flowers, they have ver little time to see who is around them. :)
