Ooty!

May -2018: 

Again after a long time, we quickly managed to plan an outing this summer to ooty. We stayed at ‘Royal Palace’ by Wadiyar group. This was the summer place where the king used to stay, now converted to multiple suites – a nice stay. The location and view from this hotel is really nice, but may be now the royalty is fading and we might prefer the modern amenities. This was the first time in a resort we had ‘jacuzzi’. There we played football, chess, carrom, bicycle riding..

This trip reminded us of our previous visit to ooty almost 10 years back – as such nothing has changed except population. Though we went on a weekday, everywhere we could see lots of people. The bus-stand is as dirty as it was then. The autos are costly, no local bus transport – it is there but better to avoid it.  Once we were in ooty, we ate carrots, plums, did horse riding, boating, been to a tea plantation. On the way to ooty – via bandipur / madhumalai – we saw eleplants/ bisons/ deers/ peo-cocks. Also when we visited the tree plantation, we saw a herd of bisons.

Overall a well deserved break.