How To Plan Your Trip To Ooty

Ooty, also known as Udhagamandalam, is a hill station in the state of Tamil Nadu, in southern India. Ooty is famous for its vast T plantations. Its an year the round destination. Ooty is also known as Queen Of Hills.

How To Reach:

• Coimbatore is the nearest airport if one wants to reach ooty by flight. From there one can hire their own cab or can take government bus to reach Ooty.
• Mettulaplyam is the railway station that have direct rail connectivity to Ooty. One can travel in Toy train from Mettulaplyam to Ooty, the journey will be time consuming but it worth spending that time.
• Ooty is directly connected to cities like Mysore, Bangalore. So one can take direct bus to Ooty from these places.

Where To Stay:

There many options available for stay in Ooty. Choice of hotel entirely depends on your budget. There are many home stays and resorts available. We stayed at hotel “Lake View”, the stay is quite comfortable. We have option for fire place this place is going to be quite chill in winters. So when you are choosing hotel make sure availability of fire place if you are travelling in winters.

How Many Days Required To Cover:

One can spend 3-4 days to cover Ooty and surroundings.

Places Of interest:

Day1: Avalanche, its beautiful place to visit in Ooty. It’s untouched beautiful  blue lake surrounded by beautiful green hills. One have to travel in government vehicle as outside vehicles are not allowed inside. Till that eco park entrance one can go by their own. This is the place where one may witness little amount of snowfall in end of December.  Trip to Avalanche Lake will be completed by noon. One can plan to visit Elk Hill Murugan temple in evening. This is pretty much near to ooty main bus stop. The temple have very big Murugan statue which looks similar to Murugan in Malaysia.

Day 2: Dodabetta peak, it is tallest peak in Ooty.From Dodabetta one can see foggy hills and lush green around.There will be lot of woolens available on Dodabetta for cheaper prices, so one can make shopping of stoles, woolen caps here. Next one can plan visit to Tea factory, where one can witness complete process of tea powder making. One can get tasty tea of cup as a complimentary for visiting Tea factory. One can buy different flavored tea powders here. Chocolate factory, this is a place where we can buy some homemade chocolates for cheep price. Ooty is famous for these so grab some to treat your taste buds and gift your friends.

Day3: Toy train, One can travel to ketti town by toy train and comeback. One side journey will take approximately one hour and distance is 10km. One can visit tea gardens, payakara falls on this day.

Day 4: Ooty botanical  garden, sims park, wax museum, boat house, amusement park. All these things one can cover in this day. If you are lucky you may get some palm wine near boat house. We got it when we went.

Pure Eucalyptus oil will be there everywhere in Ooty. So grab one so that you can use it for aromatherapy.