Ooty
(Ootacamund) :
Keyword:Udagamanalam,Ootacamund,NilgiriMounatain,Western
Ghats, Hoysala Kings,Tipu Sultan,East India Company,Indian Government,Queen Of
Hill Station.
Hello Friends ,
My name is Sylvia SenGupta.If you love to enjoy visit of Ooty (Ootacamund), you
should see the writing part along with photographs until the end to get a
proper guidance of that particular
destination ,which would make your travel easy and comfortable.
Ooty is a popular and famous hill station in southern part of India.Udagamandalam is the orginal name of Ooty.It is also called Ootacamund.This hill station located in the Nigligiris district of state of Tamil Naidu. Blue hills is called by local people of the area. It is popular place during summer season and it attracts tourist for natural environment and scenic beauty.It also famous for Nilgiri Mountain Railway. It is place for honey moon destination.It is also called Queen Of Hill Station and paradise for nature lover’s .Ooty lies between latitude 11.411020N and longitude 76.6950 0E. It situated at a height of 2240m above sea level. All the sides of Ooty surrounded by hills. Club Hill, Elk Hill, Dodabetta Hill and snowdoll Hill are main hills of this region.Niligris vegetation is different from other mountains.It is part of the western ghats.The climate of Ooty is subtropical highland climate. Spring Season is pleasant . Winter Season is cold at night. Contrast climate compare to rest of South India.The average maximum temperature is 170 C to 200 C (630 F to 680 F) and the average minimum temperature 50 C to 120 C (41 0 F to 540 F). Ootay came under the Hoysala kings in 1117CE. Later it came under Tipu Sultan in eighteenth century . After him it had gone to The East India Company in 1799.And after India’s independent Ooty came under Indian Government.
The popular tourist sites of Ooty are : Botanical
Gardens,Stone House, Toda Huts , Ooty lake and
Boat House, The Fernhills Palace , KandalCross Shine ,St. Stephens
Church, Doddabetta Peak,Ketty Valley, Annamali Temple,Boating at Pykara lake,Dolhin’s
Nose, Echo Rock , Hidden Valley,Historical Dam with Power Station ,Ooty Rose
Gardens,Pine Forest,Shooting Point, The Tea Factory, Wax World,Tea Planation
,Gymkhana Golf Course, Cabbage Fields,
Mudumalai Market,Horse Back Riding ,
Green Shop,Taj Bakers,King’s Star , Cheesemaking Farmstay, Raj Bhavan, Avalanche
lake,Today Village , CSI St Thomas Church ,Rajiv Gandhi Circle , Vittoba Temple,Marlimund
lake, Bhavani Temple, Ralliah Dam ,Katary Falls , Mariamman Temple, Krishnna’s
Butterball,Children’s Park ,Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple, Adam’s
Fountain,Thunder world, Tiger Hill, Government Museum,Thread Garden, Murugan
Temple, Holy Trinity Church, Kamaraj Sagar Dam , South Lake Road Childrens
Park, Westen Catchment. The accommodation
available in Ooty are : Hotel Maneck , Hotel Sinclair,Hotel Darshan,
Sunshine Inn, Railways Retirement Room, Sherlock Hotel, Reflections Guest
House, Fortune Resort Sullivan Court Restaurants in Ooty,3 Glyngarth Resort, 1
United -21 Paradise Ooty, Funstay, 2 Treebo Whispering Meadows, Ajantha Lodge,
Olives Pleasant Stay, Lymond House Ooty , Hotel Welbeck Residency, Saavoy Ooty
IHCL Seleqtions,Rainbow Cottage ,Tata
Officers Holidays Home,Kemp’s Cave, The Irinjalakuda House ,Lymond House Ooty
,Willow Hill, Castle Wood Resorts,Orion Country Hotel Sanjay,Glen park
Inn,Hotel Sri Balaji , Hotel Sarkar Palace, Oxygen Resorts Ooty, Kluney Manor,
Hotel Nahar Nilgiris,
Pebrock
Heritage Inn , La Flora
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