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              MY FIRST OOTY TRIP

Hello……,

I am going to share my experience of trip to ooty and this is the first time I am going to ooty with my family. Actually we people were from Malappuram. We planned for 3 day trip to ooty.we started from Kozhikode by train to mettupalayam. We reached mettupalayam around 6:00 AM. That was a pleasant morning there in mettupalayam. My friend booked toy train ticket for us. That was a difficult task to get ticket instantly for toy train. Thats why we booked ticket because I already had an experience of not getting ticket. The train started from mettupalayam by 7:00 AM. My family was very much excited because of the toy train. Train was started. The view from train of hill was such a great experience during the travel we can see many natural beauties. That was An real  treat for us. the slow pace of the train was also an advantage for us because we enjoyed each and every seconds. During the train journey we saw many deers and elephants, that was real enjoyment. Finally we reached ooty, and we booked a room at hotel SANJAY.

Ooty is the place which having unique climate and located 7,400 feet above the sea level. In ooty we can feel very different climate and beauty of hill was outstanding. Ooty is the place naturally which has plenty of plant species, rare animal and bird specious . The main attraction of ooty such as the mountains. It makes more beauty to ooty.we booked two rooms for us. hotel was nice, they provide all our needs. From our hotel we can saw many natural sceneries. That is also an advantage for that hotel. We had our break fast from our hotel itself. We booked a cab for 3 days from ram travels, cab arrived. We started to enjoy our trip in ooty.first we planned to visit ooty botanical garden, Ooty Lake, shooting point and upper bhavani.first we started from ooty botanical garden.the garden which has 22 acres of area holds for that garden. In the garden rare species of plantations and flowers were show cased for the tourists.

That was a season time, in botanical garden arranged for flower exhibition, here various designs and structures are designed by flower, that was beauty to watch and took some unforgettable photos. Here we can saw plenty variety of roses too,.if u come to botanical garden u can defiantly excited about beauty of nature. my children were enjoyed a lot.After spending few hours, we had our lunch from hotel saravana.After that we planned to visit ooty lake, we went ooty lake that was large and make us very cool. We went to boating about one hour the experience was entirely outstanding. In boating we took more beauty of nature photography .Nearer to lake, horse riding is available my children went to horse ride. The chillness was high at the time of 4:00 PM itself. boating was great, we moved to upper bhavani lake,it was a famous lake . we can able to see wolfs and deer’s etc,but we didn’t saw any animals in upper bhavani ,the view of the lake was outstanding here able to see the hills which are connected with the lake, the view was entirely unique from other lakes. Which were in the ooty.we went to lake park, here lot of instruments are there for children, they play about an hour at that time we took rest and saw my children how they enjoying that was nice feeling for me. After that we went to shooting point, the place which has lush green surface for long distance, here many film shootings are done, that’s why it got the name as shooting point. it was real entertainment for my children ,they enjoyed a lot ,that was an also picnic spot too. we are very tired that’s why we went hotel little earlier ,In hotel itself we had our dinner ,day1 was such great a day for me and my family.DAY2 we planned to visit mudumalai wild life sanctuary and Rajiv Gandhi national park and mukurthi national park

DAY2

Our driver was being on time, we first planned to visit mudumalai wildlife sanctuary, the way to sanctuary was very quiet and deserted. In mudumalai wildlife sanctuary famous for elephants here we can see lot  of elephants. It gave real trekking experience for us .here also they are providing elephant safari around the forest. That was real happy for child. whenever I came here I move into forest by walk in some distance but with family that was not comfortable for me.we spent out time upto afternoon in mudumalai wildlife sanctuary. After completing our lunch we moved to rajiv Gandhi national park and mukurthi national park.actually these places are very good to trekking. We moved to rajiv Gandhi national park ,the place which is fully covered by lush green surface and plenty of plant species. we just visit that place and went surround rajiv Gandhi national park by car.Mukurthi national park is similar to Rajiv Gandhi national park. the place are very good to trekking.

on the way we saw bandipur national park the place which has more animal species like monkey,deers,tiger,wolf etc.The place which is located in between western ghats and nilgris hill.the views are speaking more than all other beauty. After spending few hours we went to emrald lake, the place was best for picnic, which has plenty of lush greens and mounded by various plant species. Lake is fully covered by various view and here main attraction is boating. Here numerous emrald lake is also famous for shooting spot. overthere we took many photographs.DAY2 was winded up with some demolish beauty of nature.

DAY3

On day3 we planned to visit pykara falls and dodabetta . First we went to pykara falls, pykara falls and pykara lake are more joyful for tourists. Pykara falls is started from very highest mountain, the view of falls was very awesome.we clicked many snaps there ,we had many snacks like ice cream and special nilgiri corn,varkis etc..my children are enjoyed lot in pykara falls.after that we moved to pykara lake which represents own beauty of nature .we had a boating in pykara lake with my family.pykara lake has very large surface which is also managed in decent manner, there all facility were arranged in that pykara lake. After that we had our lunch and we moved to dodabetta. It is highest mountain in tamilnadu .From There we can able to see the whole ooty town, that was one of the famous in dodabetta.In dotabetta there is an availabity of telescope through that we saw the panoramic view of the surrounding eastern ghats and nilgris,that was great entertainment for us. My children were eager to see the views, the hill tower also available there. Dodabetta peak was one of the icon of ooty because if any one comes to ooty they definitely spend time in dodabetta peak, that was one of the place all should visit.After that we went to avalanche lake,that is similar to ooty lake ,which provides entirely unique view, that was the special in that lake. we return back to ooty town and did some shopping was well. we purchased special snack of ooty” varkis” and some arts of ooty,the nilgiri oil and winter wear,there we got winter wears in best rate. we enjoyed lot more in ooty.we return back to hotel and checked out at 5:00 PM . we got our train at 10:00 pm in Coimbatore .the entire trip was great with my family. The trip with my family was different from normal trip with friends thanks to ooty.

- sahal