OOTY- AN EVER CHARMING HILL STATION

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Ooty is very famous hill station in south India which is always covered in clouds. Our journey started from Bangalore. We started to travel by bus from Tin Factory. By 11.30 pm in the night, we had reached a Barista lavazza cafe near Channapatna which is around 60 kms from Bangalore. We were so hungry and ate and drank very well there and left at around 12.15 pm to Ooty.

The bus from Bangalore goes through the Mandya-Mysore-Bandipur route. The bus has to halt before Bandipur as it is a Wildlife Sanctuary and does transport is restricted from 9:00pm to 6:00am. The persons who booked the ticket from Bangalore did not know that there are a couple of buses that has permission to go through the sanctuary non-stop.

We reached the check post of Bandipur by around 4:00am and halted till 6:00am. We reached Ooty around 9:30am and had our breakfast in the Orchid Inn Hotel in which we will be staying. At around 10:00am we started our journey for Ooty sightseeing. First we went to the famous Botanical Garden of Ooty. We spent around 2 hours and explored the garden and taken photos of whatever we saw and liked. After that we had our lunch and proceeded to one of the tribal villages in Ooty. We spend a good 1 hour there talking to the people to understand their culture and way of living. It was really informative and interesting and a lot of misconceptions about the lifestyles of these people were cleared.

We then proceeded to 9 mile a famous picnic and shooting spot in Ooty. Reaching there we saw that a south film shooting was running. We thought of running away from there, but the beauty of the place really held us with itself. We then took some photographs of the sunset.  After that we went to our hotel and had dinner and then went to sleep as we were too tired.

Next day the guide came at 7:00am and took us to Avalanche Lake – it is a place about 30km away from Ooty. It is one of the most beautiful lakes I have ever seen and everyone got into the act immediately.

 After spending some real quality time there, our guide suggested that we go to the Bavani Lake, which is another 40 minutes away from there. We reached a point before the Lake and got down to walk towards the lake. We reached a small temple (Bavani Amman temple) which was worshipped by the local people there and the forest department employees who work there. There was a small falls which was flowing near the temple which flowed down beyond the temple and made the place quite scenic. We came to know that during the monsoon this falls will be really big – reminded about the Monsoon Trek. This place was really beautiful that it ate up quite our time. After snapping some photographs there, we returned to the vans the time was already 3:30pm and we had a good 90 minutes drive ahead to reach the town.

Immediately after lunch we returned back to our hotel. We took some photographs of the hotel and the garden behind.

We refreshed ourselves in the hotel and left by around 8:30pm, had a light dinner and headed back to Bangalore and reached here by 6:00am in the morning. It was a very enjoyable and fun filled trip with some really useful sessions on flora and fauna and of course about photography too!