Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Trip to OOty

Last week I and Hari had gone to Madikeri to attend Aparna's marriage(Hari's cousin). Since Hari had leave on friday as well as monday, we thought of going to OOty.
After the "gowji and gammattu" of the wedding, we started early morning from madikeri to mysore. From mysore immediately we got a bus to OOty. A Volvo.
The bus was quite full. As the ghats started one by one ppl started puking. Ewww... God it was horrible. I was a relief when we reached ooty at 2.30 in d noon.
After lot of searching and all we got a nice room near the boat house with a good view of the lake. We took rest for some time and did some shopping near by. What we observed was dat Woollen sweaters are very cheap in Ooty.
Next day we booked a car and went to "mudumalai" trip. On the way we went to pykara falls, Kamraj dam, Horse riding and a shootin spot(film shooting:). But entire ooty can be considered as a shooting spot. The landscape cannot be described in words.
After travelling for around 70 km we reached "mudumalai". "Mudumalai" is a forest area. From there after a one hour safari in side the jungle we headed back to Oooty. This time from a short route of 36 km from mudumalai through masinagudi, The ghats were excellent with 36 hairpin curves!!!
The next day Hari's friend took us to his house and then we went to Botanical Garden.The place was swarming with tourists. But I observed that it was the only clean place in the entire Ooty city. From there we went back to our room, checked out and had food in a hotel. Then as there was still time for our Bus to go back to mysore, we went to the rose garden. There were hundreds of variety of roses there.After clicking few pics, we headed back to the bus stand.
We reached Mysore at around 9.30 and had food in a hotel near the bus stand, and then climbed a bus to Bangalore.




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