Ooty Travel Guide

Ooty Colleges

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:02:00 -0700

Ooty Colleges (In & around)

1. Government Arts College, Ooty - 2443981

2. Emerald Height College for Women, Ooty - 2442822

3. Providence College for Women, Coonoor - 2220604

4. J.S.S. College of Pharmacy, Ooty - 2443393

5. J.S.S. Institute of Naturopathy and Yogic Science - 2444128

1. CSI College of Engineering, Ketty - 257474

1. Merit Swiss Asian School of Hotel Management - 2443601-06

2. Monarch International College of Hotel Management - 2442694

3. Riga College of Hotel Management, Coonoor - 231512

1. Govt. Polytechnic, Ooty - 2443407

2. District Institute of Education and Training, Kotagiri - 2271860

3. Bethlehem Teacher Training Institute, Ooty - 2446050

4. Govt. Industrial Training Institute, Coonoor - 2231759

5. St.Joseph's Industrial School, Ooty - 2442306

Ooty Schools

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:35:00 -0700

Ooty Schools

There are plenty of good schools are in Ooty. Im sharing few of them below.

Good Shepherd Public School
Fernhill P.O., Ootacamund, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu - 643 004
Phone 0423-2444151, 152,153,154... (10 lines)
Fax 0423-2442920
Email info@gsps.com
Website http://www.gsps.com

St. Joseph's Boy's Higher Sec.
Coonoor
Phone 04264-220493
Website http://www.josephiteonline.org

The Lawrence School
Lovedale, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu - 643 003
Phone 0423-2442552 / 2443927
Fax 0423 2442549

Rex Higher Secondary School
The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu - 643 003
Phone 0423-2442064

Woodside School
Ooty
Phone 0423-2441703

Nazareth Convent for girls, Ooty
Phone 0423-2442391

Woodside School, Ooty
Phone 0423-2441703

JSS Public School, Ooty
Phone 0423-2445041

St.Joseph's Convent for Girls, Coonoor
Phone 04264-2230287

St.Jude's Public School, Kotagiri
Phone 04266-271839

Pandiaraj Memorial School, Kotagiri
Phone 04266-271447

Kotagiri Public School, Kotagiri
Phone 04266-271765

Ooty Train

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:25:00 -0700

Ooty Train. Nilgiris - Mountain Railway

Ooty Train called as "Toy Train" with blue & cream colour with steam engine is very familiar in tourist people. The ‘Nilgiris toy train’ connect Ooty to mettupalayam, at the foot of the Nilgiris. It was in 1854 that the first plans were drawn to build a mountain railway from mettupalayam to the Ooty. This railway is widely regarded as a marvel of engineering. The train itself is a charming blue and cream colours with wooden coaches and has large windows. It is hauled up hills by stream engines, designed and built by the Swiss Locomotive Works. Twelve of such locomotive engines survive even today.

The train travels near 46 km to Ooty approaximately in five hours. There are five stations between Mettupalayam and Coonoor - Kallar, Adderley, Hill Grove, Runnymede and Kateri – and, at one time, there were five between Coonoor and Ooty too. Through Wellington, Aruvankadul, Ketti, and Lovedale are still functional, Fren Hill, the last one, was closed down a few years ago.

The train, for obvious safety reasons, averages around 10 km/hour and it is the slowest in India.
Built in the late 19th century, the track rises at a gradient of 1 in 12 and has 208 curves and 13 tunnels.
The train departure from Mettupalayam (Foot of Nilgiris hills) at 7.45 am and reaches Ooty at noon.
You must enjoy this journey. Awesome views of great blue mountain hills. You will love it.

What You can do in OOTY?

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:59:00 -0700

What are all you can DO in OOTY?

You can enjoy the cool weather.

Travel in the Nilgiris Railway. A blue colour train with wooden coaches with stream engine and cream with wooden coaches, large windows and Aweseome journey.

Go for long walks in the chilled weather.

Visit country side and feel the real ooty weather, culture.

Dont forget to visit golf at the Gymkhana Golf course. (Only members are allowed).

Visit the Testates and Factories. There are plenty of Tea estates around the Ooty Rural & urban areas.

Visit the Mudumalai forest sanctuary. (It takes around 2 hours from Ooty)

Visit Defense Services Staff College.

Visit 6th mile and also the 9th mile (Movie shooting spots. Very calm & green area. Very peaceful area.

You can get form Fresh Carrot on the way.

How to Get In

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:43:00 -0700

By plane

The Coimbatore airport is the closest to the Ooty. It takes 3.1/2 hours by road to reach Ooty. There are flights into Coimbatore from Singapore, Sharjah, Colombo and most parts of India including Mumbai (Air Deccan, Indian Airlines,Jet and Go Air), Chennai ( Air Deccan, Paramount, Indian Airlines and Jet) and Bangalore.

By Train (Awesome Journey. Don't Miss)

The Queen of Hills is connected to the Chennai City (Capital of Tamilnadu) by a train at night hours. The train called as Nilgiri Express which leaves from Chennai at night, and reaches Mettupalayam a small town at the foothills of the Nilgiris early the next morning around 6.30am. The trainThe Nilgiri Mountain Railway (called as a Toy Train) leaves Mettupalayam at 7.10am The train is very smaller one and can only accommodate few passengers. A through ticket from Chennai to Ooty will ensure a place in the smaller train, although many prefer the faster route of taking a cab or a bus from Mettupalayam.

The steam train takes a very scenic route, and the pace of travel will let you take in the beautiful scenery at leisure with stops at stations for the engine to take on water (the journey takes about 5.1/2 hours compared to 2 hours by road). The train often travels only at 5 - 10 Kmph, allowing some adventerous passengers to disembark from the train and walk along the train.

Mettupalayam can prove to be a bottle-neck during the peak season of April-June with cabs charging exorbitant rates. The train is often quite regular in this part of the country, and is by far the most comfortable way to get here.
There are other trains from Chennai to Coimatore also.

By car

The Nilgiris are in Tamilnadu state (South india) but it is not far to the borders of neighboring karnataka and Kerala. The hills consequently can be reached from within Tamil Nadu by travelling up a heavily forested winding road, with many sharp hair-pin beds. The road trip from any state is quite scenic, although the Coimbatore-Ooty road is the most & frequentlytravelled and well maintained.

There are buses and shared taxi vans are available from most parts of South India to Ooty. Ooty is 284 km from Bangalore by road. The journey takes about 8 hours. One can take a shorter route for which a diversion has to be taken at Mudumalai wildlife sanctuary. There are eating places between Bangalore and Mysore, and within Mysore, but from Mysore to Ooty one should carry some food, as there are very few restaurants.

OOTY HOTELS

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:11:00 -0700

Ooty Hotel Information

Hotels, Address, Phone Number

Hotel Savoy,
For Reservation E-mail - hotelsavoy@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.3000-6500/-$67-$145
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Holiday Inn Gempark
For Reservation E-mail - holidaygempark@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.3000-6000$67-$134
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Hotel Sinclairs,Ooty
For Reservation E-mail - sinclairs@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.3260-4990$73-$111
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Sullivan Court,
For Reservation E-mail - sullivancourt@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.2500-3000$56-$67
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Monarch Resort ,Ooty
For Reservation E-mail - monarch@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.1400-3000$33-$67
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Hotel Lake View,
For Reservation E-mail - lakeview@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.1075-1275$25-$30
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Hotel Nahar Nilgiris
For Reservation E-mail - hotelnahar@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.1075-1275$25-$30
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The Willow Hill,
For Reservation E-mail - willowhill@hotelstamilnadu.com
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Rs.1200-1500$30-$35
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ECONOMY HOTELS

Hotel Dasaprakash
Ettines Rd
Phone : 0423 2442434
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Hotel Khems
Shoreham Palace Rd
Phone : 0423 2444188
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Nilgiri Woodlands Hotel
Phone : 0423 2442551
Fax 0423 2442530
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TTDC Hotel Tamil Nadu
Charing Cross
Phone : 0423 2444370
Fax 0423 2444369
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Lake View
Lake Rd
Phone : 0423 2443904
Fax 0423 2443579
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Hotel Nahar
Charing Cross
Phone : 0423 2445173
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noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:15:00 -0700

Avalanche

Travel 28 kms from Ooty main town. Avalanche is surrounded by the Emerald Lake and forest. It is towards to Upper-Bhavani from Ooty. The awesome scenery at every turn is an experience of wonder and delight. The views from the top of the hill at Avalanche give a nice sight of the Valley and reservoir. In many places here, the shoals are so thick that even sunlight cannot penetrate. Avalanche is home to a wide variety of birds in great abundance. This place is good for bird lovers.

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:14:00 -0700

Ooty Rose Garden (Centenary Roase park)

OotyRose Park is situated in the heart of Ooty town and it is located less than a km from Charring Cross at Vijayanagaram, the rose garden is laid on 10 acres of land. This garden has been beautifully laid out in terraces with rose tunnels, pergolas and bowers with rose creepers. Today this garden has the largest collections of roses in the country, around 3000 roses varieties of roses like Hybrid Tea Roses, miniature rose, Floribunda, Ramblers, roses of unusual colours like black, green and many more varieties of roses that will captivate your senses. The Rose Garden is situated in slopes of the Elk Hill. The rose varieties planted in this park were assembled from different sources. The 'Nila Maadam' is located in a spot from where viewers can see the entire rose garden. This garden is maintained by Tamil Nadu Horticulture Department. It has also received the award of Excellence for the best rose garden in entire south Asia from the International Rose society in 2006.

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:13:00 -0700

Ooty Dodabetta Peak

The Doddabetta Peak is said to be one of the highest peak in south India & famous tourist place in India. Ooty is undisputedly one of the best hill stations of South India and anyone who visits it is so completely charmed by its beauty that he cherishes the desire to visit it over and over again. The height of the Dodabetta Peak is 2,623 meters making it the highest point of the district. It is located at a distance of about 10 km from the main town and offers an unbelievably beautiful view of the surrounding topography. Many say that on a clear day, which is honestly not that often, one can see far off areas, even the plains of Coimbatore and the flat highlands of Mysore.

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:11:00 -0700

Ooty lake

The Ooty lake was made in 1823 - 1825 due to the initiative taken by the then Collector of Coimbatore Mr. John Sullivan. At the Ooty Lake, a Boat house is being maintained by the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation to assist the tourist and others to hire rowboats, peddle boats or motor boats. An artificial Lake had been farmed across the narrow outlet of the valley. This lake famously known as "Boat House". The length of the lake is about 2.75kms and the breadth varies from 100 to 140 meters with an area of over 65 acres.

This history of the lake coincides with the history of Ooty. It is a very popular tourist spot in Ooty. You can go boating between 8 AM and 6 PM on all days in this lake. A wide range of boats are available at the Boat House to suit varied tastes and budgets. A Mini Garden with an amusement park for children and a toy train are added more attractions.

Ooty Travel Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Ooty Travel Guide) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:41:00 -0700

Ooty is known as Udhagamandalam and also called as Queen of Hills. Ooty is the capital of The Nilgiris district. Ooty is one of the famous hills station in India. Its is situated at an altitude of 2,240 meters above sea level. Nilgiris Blue Mountains. It is a land of picturesque picnic spots. Used to be popular summer and weekend getaway for the Britishers during the colonial days.
There are plenty of interesting tourist spots like Gardens, lakes, water falls, shooting spots, sight seeing and many more.

Botanical Garden

Ooty called as "Udagamandalam" in the version of Tamil original name. And proudly known as "Queen of Hills". Botanical garden is one of the best tourist attraction place which attracts the tourist from all over the world. This garden was laid out in 1847 by the Marquis of Tweedale and is spread over 22 hectares ascending the slopes on the hill at an elevation of 2,400 meters above Main Sea Level.

The "Summer Festivals" is held each year during the month of May in the Botanical Garden. Flourishing green well maintained lawns, rare trees species a 20 million year old fossil tree, an Italian - style garden bordering, a immense variety of flowering bushes, flowers, and plants , fern house with a vast range ferns and orchids, a clear pool are some of the highlights of this garden. A flower show along with an exhibition of rare plant species is held every year in the month of May at this garden.

The Garden is maintained by the Horticulture Department of the Government of Tamil Nadu and has a very wide variety of plants that include different types of roses, imported shrubs, rare flowering plants etc.The "Summer Festivals" is held each year during the month of May