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2 years ago

Greetings! Dear read.cash members. A visit to a strange destination becomes memorable when we spent quality time with family exploring the two ends - the best and the worst. The visit to this destination called "Ooty" was only for three days. But the memories we carried along with us, will certainly last long.

As planned, we arranged for a mini bus with a tour guide. It was a 30 seater capacity bus. Before the halt of each destination a brief introduction was given to us about the place by the tour guide. Our first visit was to the "Boat club" where we get to go for a boat ride with a minimal cost. Either we get a motor boat or single row boat at our choice.

This is the boat club I mentioned about

Just nearby the boat club was an articial flower show - the speciality of this show was the flowers were being handmade by around 1200 women in 10 years. They were made out of yarn and different variety of cloth materials.

Handmade flower shop

Later on we were taken to Lamb's peak. Here we go trekking to the mountain peak. Why it's called Lamb's peak is because of its shape in the form of lamb. From the peak you can have a glance down to see the trees covered with mist. On the way back we saw lot of monkeys running around and playing. All the people were careful with their mobiles as we were told that the monkeys are smart enough to snatch the mobiles.

Trekking On the way to Lamb's rock

Another important and interesting fact prevails still in this place. It is the existence of steam engine. We get an opportunity to travel in it for a minimum of 3 hrs. The interesting fact of the steam engine was it halts in 4-5 stations for nearly 10 minutes to fill water in its engine. To watch this interesting process everone alights from the train to have a glance of it. Because all these were in text books once upon a time. This started during the regime of Britishers in India in late 1800's. Still its being followed.

This is the steam engine I mentioned about. They are filling water in the engine

Hope you enjoyed my articles. Your valuable comments are appreciated.

All images captured from my mobile. Lead image is the view from the hotel where we stayed. Credits to my son who captured it.

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That's must have been a very enjoyable trip. And amazing that steam engine train is still operational there. That is fantastic!

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2 years ago

Really a memorable trip it was. Yes it's the only place in India where they operate this inorder to retain its beauty.

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2 years ago

The flower shop is really beautiful and it makes me wonder how it really looks like in person. However the monkeys caught my attention, aren't they attack people? Are they friendly? I have seen monkey's before but they are wild and they don't want people to go near to them.

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2 years ago

The flower shop is really amazing in person. More because they are hand made. For Monkeys they were running around all the tourist not sure they will attack us. But when we go near the baby monkeys they come up with a loud noise towards us. Probably threatening us.

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2 years ago

Stunning photographs of Ooty site and relate hills view. Boating my favourite too , I feel amazed when I think that I am walking on water or glading over it.

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2 years ago

Credit goes to the place for this lovely photographs. Boating was crowded when we went. As we went with the tour guide we were given a specified time to complete and return.

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2 years ago

I love them all, I would also like to go out and walk every weekend but you have to have money.

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2 years ago

Yes I truly agree. Even we thought about this journey twice if we need to go or not due to financial issues. Finally we cut short our proposed budget for the trip and made an attempt. Anyway all ended well. Hope you will also definitely get a chance to visit the places of your choice my dear. A break is a must.

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