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Famous For : HillHill StationNature / In season, Ooty can be a crush of tourists. WildlifePlaces To VisiMountain But the secret to getting the best out of this Jan Ooty Best Time : Apr,May,Sep,Oct,Nov ‘Queen of Nilgiris’ is: spend time in the Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. Max: 30.8°C Min: 18.8°C Rain: 6.1mm Usually referred to as the Queen of Languages : Tamil periphery of the town and visit in low season. You will get a heady cocktail of hill stations, Ooty Altitude : 2486 m Feb rolling hills, tea plantations, villages, (Udhagamandalam) is a STD Code : 0423 Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. unbridled greenery, unexpected lakes. And Max: 33.5°C Min: 20.0°C Rain: 11.2mm picturesque little town amidst in the low season - when every comfort is Ooty (Udhagamandalam) serene lakes, lofty mountains and still on offer, and an umbrella and a change Mar (Udhagamandalam) is nurtured in the sprawling grasslands. Ooty is of socks can see you through much- look Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. Nilgiris or the 'Blue Mountains', it is a situated at an altitude of 2,240 out for sharp fragrance of ghostly pines Max: 35.7°C Min: 21.9°C Rain: 23.4mm spellbinding little hill station in . lining misty  roads; the sun lighting up meters above sea level and has The serene hill station has pleasant weather Apr a hill even as the one beside remains abundant vegetation and tea all year round that makes it a perfect shrouded in dark velvet; ponies chomping Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. gardens. A huge number of tourists hideout in the summer. The lush green tea grass by the kerb; acacias in full bloom; the Max: 36.1°C Min: 23.6°C Rain: 44.2mm are attracted to the annual Tea and plantations and dense forests are a sight to bright gold of witches’ broom dotting every Tourism Festival which takes place treasure. South India’s most famous hill May hill; the aroma of hot filter coffee and even station was a realm of tribal people and here. hotter sambhar. Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen, shola forests till the British annexed the umbrella.   Nilgiris in 1799 and John Sullivan, Collector Max: 34.8°C Min: 23.6°C Rain: 65.5mm The exhilarating train journey commencing of Coimbatore, made the first stone house from Kallar to is a marvellous Jun here in 1823.  Over the years, Ooty- experience and is extremely popular among Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. hardly ever called by its original name, tourists. Come to Ooty for the pristine Max: 32.3°C Min: 22.7°C Rain: 37.9mm Udhagamandalam- took its place as a beauty of the place and the calm that it Nilgiris tea-plantation hot spot, served as Jul offers to everyone who comes here. The the summer headquarters of the sahibs Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. scenic and very popular destination is who ruled from Madras and got its own Max: 31.3°C Min: 22.1°C Rain: 27.2mm actually a fantastic option if you are churches, bungalows and picnic spots. Much planning a trip in the lap of Mother Nature. Aug of which now makes it one of the most Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. popular holiday destinations in India. Max: 31.8°C Min: 22.1°C Rain: 30.8mm In season, Ooty can be a crush of tourists. But the secret to getting the best out of this When To Sep ‘Queen of the Nilgiris’ is: spend time in the This Pdf and its contents are copyright © Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. 2013,ixigo.com, all rights reserved. ixigo logo, the character and all other marks displayed herein are periphery of the town and visit in low Max: 32.5°C Min: 22.2°C Rain: 49.8mm registered and/or common law trademarks of ixigo.com and/or third parties. season. VISIT Oct   Ooty-Guide page 2

Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen, different world charm to it, giving a different Parking Facility, Taxi Services, Doctor on Call, umbrella. Bell Mont touch to your stay. Choose from variety of Laundry Service, Games Room, Yoga Max: 31.5°C Min: 22.1°C Rain: 164.0mm rooms that includes Executive, Deluxe, Classes, Gymnasium, Airport Transfer, Fortune Retreats is set on Tiger Hill Road, Nov Luxury and Semi-deluxe rooms. The in Railway Station Transfer, Sightseeing, Guide Ooty. The hotel is one of the leading house restaurant doles out some exotic Service, Spa, Bicycles on Hire, Shuttle Service Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen, properties in the panoramic location of the umbrella. Indian and Chinese fare, with an added Room AmenitiesCable TV, DVD Player, city. It is 90 kilometers away from Max: 29.8°C Min: 21.0°C Rain: 137.6mm option to dine at the terrace lounge. Intercom Facility, Mineral Water, Iron & Coimbatore airport whereas nearest Ironing Board, Sofa, Dining Table, Study railhead, Mettupalyam is at a distance of 60 Dec Table, Daily Newspaper, Balcony/Sit Out, kilometers. Fortune Retreats is close to all Pleasant weather. Carry Light woollen. ------Safe Deposit Locker, Electronic Safe, Max: 29.4°C Min: 19.0°C Rain: 42.6mm major tourist attractions like Botanical Piped/Channel Music, Fireplace, Room 2 Hotel Beaumount Garden, the Rose Garden, Thread Garden, Heater, Shower Area, Hot/Cold Water, Children's Park, the art display at Lalith Kala Where To Geyser in Bathroom, Bathroom Toiletries, Academy and Thothapetta. Equipped with Bath Tub, 24 Hrs. Room Service Hotel world class infrastructural efficiencies, the Beaumount offers 37 elegantly furnished hotel provides the guests a relaxed and Stay rooms divided into 3 categories as Cottage, pleasant stay. Fortune Retreats features an 9 Hotels Super Deluxe and Deluxe rooms with room extensive range of accommodation to suit service.DiningIndoor Restaurant: 1, Coffee Budget for every budget and taste. It has 40 Shop: 1, Dining Hall: 1 Internet: Available, spacious cottages. The hotel also supports Parking Facility: Available" superb dining facilities. Hotel 1 Sherlock Hotel ------FacilitiesGarden, Parking Facility, Restaurant, Dining Hall, Room Service, Camp Fire, Travel Tiger Hill Road, Upper 3 Fortune Retreats Desk, Security for 24 hrs.Recreational Thalayatimund, Ooty 643001, India 88/89 Club Road, Near District Facility: Arrangement for trekking and Collectors Office ₹ 1100 onwards hikingRoom AmenitiesLiving Room, Dining Hall, Cable TV, Refrigerator, Intercom with +91-94870-00111 Hotel Beaumount is a deluxe modern hotel that provides numerous facilities, efficient ISD Facility, Hot/Cold WaterThe hotel offers services and luxurious a sum of 40 cottages.DiningThe multi- It's a mid budget hotel with some nine well- accommodation.Hotel Beaumount is well cuisine restaurant at the hotel provides the equipped rooms. The basic amenities here placed at Club Road near District Collector guests several lip smacking and sumptuous includes free Internet, parking, and free Office. Coimbatore Airport is 100 km delicacies.Internet: Not Available & breakfast as well. More than a hotel, it feels whereas Udhakmandalam Railway Station is Parking Facility: Available Check-In Time: like a retreat. just 1 km from the property. Hotel 12:00 Noon & Check-Out Time: 12:00 FacilitiesLawns/Gardens, Executive Lounge, Noon " More so, for it was a private mansion Internet Facility, Indoor Restaurant, Dining during the British rule in India. The Hall, Coffee Shop, Travel Desk, Bonfire, architectural beauty of the place adds a Ooty-Guide page 3

must-have is their sumptuous buffet Mid breakfast (Rs 350 for walk-ins, included in the room tariff for inhouse guests). The spread includes excellent breads and 4 Sagar Holiday Resorts croissants, eggs cooked as you ask for, pancakes or idlis/ vadas and dosas, hashbrown potatoes, baked beans, fruits, juice.

The twilight hours in the morning and evening are bird times at King’s Cliff. There’s One of the most striking looking hotels a busy cacophony in the trees and you can around, this was a mansion once upon a do a spot of birdwatching even as you sip time. Needless to say, an old world charm is your tea. There are beautiful walks in the still an inherent feature of King's Cliff. This hotel at Ooty offers a range of 21 hills surrounding the property that take you There's a special dining hall, a lounge, a hall rooms at a price that's modest enough. through plantations, village habitations and and a refectory apart from the rooms. Located at the Grand Duf Road, Ooty, Sagar Offering everything that makes for a woods.

Holiday Resorts has 36 well equipped comfortable stay, Meadows Residency Ooty With a total of nine rooms for visitors, each rooms. With all the little luxuries in place, it has Executive, Platinum, Pearl and more having a name that owes from the famous also has a lounge that, usually, has a happy such room variants for the visitors. Luxury chracters by Shakespeare, log fire burning. King's Cliff is a different stay option Oven, the multi cuisine restaurant at the altogether. And yes, completing the settings 7 Highland Hotel Snuggle around in the lounge with a book hotel offers food that tastes quite like home, are working fireplace in each of the rooms. for company or enjoy the three course and has the best of flavours as well. There's Now this is what you call a vintage stay dinner that's a speciality of the place. And also a special desk for travel related queries option. It is a charming 130-year old don't forget that the food here comes with a and car rental. property, set amidst lovely trees and lawns. dash of flavours from Oriental and Tasteful décor, rooms with fireplaces Continental cuisine. 6 King's Cliff and wonderful food.

5 Meadows Residency And what food! Earl’s Secret is the inhouse restaurant that is also open to walk-ins. It should definitely top Ooty’s list of places to eat. The Continental food is exceptional, especially soups and pasta. Even a veg 4/278, Junction, Kotagiri asparagusbroccolli soup was delicious. The Road, Ooty 643001, India Indian offerings are very good too. Another Ooty-Guide page 4

+91-423-2450021 plus gymnasium at the resort, while the kids are sure to have a hay-day at the sports 1 Ooty Botanical Gardens The Botanical Garden is also a popular With 49 plush rooms and four really arena. And for the ones travelling for haunt of the tourist, and offers a variety of luxurious suites, Highland Hotel Ooty makes business, there's a Conference Hall that can NH 138, Tamil Nadu, India trees, shrubs and flowers. People come here for a good choice for the ones seeking sit up to 300 people at one time. to lounge in the lawns and walk among the All Days 08:00 AM-10:00 PM luxurious stay options. The rooms here shady trees and plants. One of the oldest The Rose Garden is a small terrace atop a boast of having a mini bar, electronic safes, 9 Club Mahindra Derby Green botanical gardens in the country, it began hill off Etiennes Road. The season to be here wi-fi internet connection and all the life in the 1840s as a vegetable garden to is April when more than a thousand essentials of a comfortable stay. It's one of 29-49, Baikey Road, Ooty 643001, supply veggies to Ooty’s residents. Trees varieties are in bloom. In other seasons, the the very few hotels at Ooty that have central India and plants from all over the world were garden will seem drab and can be given a heating. brought here over the years. +91-94870-73114 skip. Sprawling for over 22 hectares, The in house restaurant at Highland doles Ooty Botanical Gardens are a hub for nature 2 Upper Bhavani Lake out everything from Italian to Indian to lovers. These gardens are situated on the This plush resort spread over more than Oriental and Continental. And for those who slopes of the Doddabetta peak, with a five acres of lush greens at Ooty. It's a resort Upper Bhavani Lake, Tamil Nadu, like a swig or two, there's Zodiac, the cosy terrace type layout to add to the charm. that gives you the essentially 'home away India lounge and bar at the hotel. Established in 1847, these are the mind from home' feel with the option to pick from work of the famous architect William Upper Bhavani Lake can make for the Studio Apartments and Single Bedroom 8 Fortune Hotel Sullivan Court Graham McIvor. With over a thousand memories of a lifetime with its sheer beauty. Apartments. Ooty different species of flora making for a lush With the entire area being declared as a

stretch, Ooty Botanical Gardens are much reserved wildlife area, the drive up to the It has a total of 89 rooms and boasts of a 123, Selbourne Road, Ooty 643001, more than just a relief to city weary eyes. It lake is equally enchanting. The blue Nilgiris well equipped spa, an in house restaurant Tamil Nadu, India has an impressive array of ferns, plants, that stand out at the horizon by the lake named Ascot, a bar and lounge, and a make the sight look like some postcard ₹ 5400 onwards shrubs, herbs and bonsai plants that are a special sports zone as well. With the best of major draw. that's nothing less than picture perfect. One +91-423-2441415 Indian and Continental cuisine on offer, you touch and the postcard may go smudge at can dine at the restaurant or your rooms. This resort is nestled in the rolling greens of These gardens are divided into six areas, the touch - such is the beauty of this place. Room service is available for all 24 hours, Ooty, luring wandering souls for a which includes the Lower Garden, New making it a truly comfortable stay. comfortable, luxurious stay. It has a total of Garden, Italian Garden, Conservatory, The dam at the

69 rooms, including Standard Rooms, Suites Fountain Terrace and Nurseries. A riot of Upper Bhavani lake provides water for and Fortune Club Rooms. Dining at Sullivan colours await you at the widely spreading irrigation and more to the region around. Court is a grand affair with the in house, What To flower beds that are an intrinsic part of Ooty Owing to its proximity to Mukurthi National multi-cuisine restaurant doling out Botanical Gardens. It also hosts an Park, the area around the lake is a habitat to delicacies for all 24 hours. exhibition of rare plant species in May every species like wolves, jackals, wild dogs, tigers SEE year, another reason to visit this wonder and more. Thus, apart from the wondrous 5 Sights It also has an in house bar, named work of nature. beauty of the place, it's a great attraction for Selbourne's. You can also work out in the the adventure lovers too. Ooty-Guide page 5

to Lord Muruga. It's also known as after Captain Lambs, it gives a bird's eye dig into the non vegetarian dishesh here. 3 The Tea Factory Annamalai Murugan Temple, and sees a view of the Coonoor Stream that flows from With an ambience that feels cosy, Quality steady trickle of devotees all through the amidst the hills, some 5000 feet below. Restaurant is a favourite with tourists and Dodabetta Road, Kil Kodappamund, year.  locals alike. Ooty, Tamil Nadu 643001, India The brownish green rocks at the point are a Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat 09:00 AM- photo fanatics dream land, and it'll be little 2 The Garden Cafe 06:00 PM wonder if you see shutterbugs clicking This one is for the experience seeker in you, around for hours at a stretch. From far Nahar Nilgiris Hotel, Charing Cross, for the beyond, this rock formation looks like a Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India Tea Factory in Ooty is more of a museum. It At just 20 kms from Ooty, it's quite giant slab, sprawling beneath the stark blue +91-423-2442173 lets you take a walk in the factory, with CTC accessible from the quaint town. It stands sky. Never have the two colours looks so machines processing tea. A two storey atop a hill amidst strikingly serene rich, so complimentary to each other. This in-house restaurant at Nahar Nilgiris building, it has tea leaves driers on the surroundings as devotees from as far as Hotel specialises in doling out the best of second floor, while the walls are splattered Mysore gather in reverence. It also hosts an Where To South Indian delicacies. Be it the super with the history of tea and the art of tea annual festivals, luring devotees from all savoury dosas, the nutty upma or making via paintings and more. across the world. Apart from the religious the perfectly made uttapams, sanctity of the temple, it's location offers Eat The Garden Cafe has got it all. A guide will take you through the much to the wanderers with the gorgeous 5 Places Tea factory, often called as a museum too, silver oak trees and tea estates stretching Adding more to its charm is the surprisingly in groups and impart knowledge of the for acres around. Such is the calmness 1 Quality Restaurant low price quotient, making it a delight for whole process of pervading this place that you can often see the ravenous foodie in you. One must-try tea making and more. Once here. you'll people meditating at the temple and the Coronation Avenue, Ooty, Tamil here is the Vegetable Uttapam. Foodies know what makes a tea brand differ from area around it.  Nadu, India swear by the softness of the idlis here, with the other in terms of quality and more. a regular and steady flow of locals and Essentially a family restaurant, Quality has Watching the amazingly high speed CTC 5 Echo Rock tourists stepping in for a quick bite.  machines at work is an experience of a something for everyone. From the vadas of different kind, for you would've never Echo Rock, Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India South India to the butter-oozing paranthas 3 Willy's Coffee Pub imagined the rigour that goes into making of Punjab, it seems to have a spread that will enamour you no end. that cup of tea of yours taste so good. Also known as Lamb Rocks, Echo Rocks are Green Field Road (Commercial Road),

one of the most prominent viewpoints at Ooty, Tamil Nadu 643001, India 4 Annamalai Temple Ooty. The horizon seldom looks as With a cosy library, friendly staff, great beauteous as it does when you climb up the location and food that you can die for, Kil Kundha Post, The Nilgiris, Tamil point and see it from here. The cool blue Willy's Coffee Pub is a great place to grab a Nadu, 643219, India ranges of the Nilgiris stretch for as long as The buffet here is a big draw, with the bite or two. Savour the crusty pizzas, rolls, you can see, while a rising sun often colours delectable chicken biryani, paranthas and sandwiches, cakes, chapati wraps and more. in unimaginable hues of orange. Named some Chinese food as well. Don't forget to One of the most visited temples in the It has an English, old world feel, with the Nilgiri Hills, Annamalai Temple is dedicated Ooty-Guide page 6

breakfast options adhering to the English way of dining. 5 Ponmari Multicuisine Restaurant

You wouldn't have tasted coffee that's as rich as the one served here. And yes, there's Ponmari Residency, No 26 D, Kotagiri Road, Charring Cross, Ooty the very sumptuous Banana Walnut Cake 643001, India too. If nothing else, you won't be able to resist a cup of simple Nescafe here. Apart +91-423-2452448 from the food, the library at Willy's has a rare collection, which you'll enjoy over a cup A fine blend of Indian and International or two. Plus, you can also play a game or cuisines is what you get here, at the in- two, with ample of board games stacked house restaurant of Hotel Ponmari here. Residency.

4 Nahar's Sidewalk Cafe With an ambience that's strictly South Indian, you'll be surprised by the authentic Commercial Road, 52-A, Charing Continental and Chinese, apart from the Cross, Ooty 643001, Ooty, India South Indian fare, that's served here. Dining at Ponmari is an experience in itself, for the +91-423-2442173 restaurant overlooks the green hills that encompass the area all around. This one is a small food joint that looks more like a home away from home. And the staff here proves just that, showering you with disarming smiles as they take orders. With darkly coloured walls and windows that overlook the busy street, foodies can be often seen having a hearty meal, perched atop some old looking stools.

One of the specialities here is the oven fresh pizza, and adhering to its literal connotation, you can actually see the wood-fired oven. Walk in here for a quick bite of pizzas, sandwiches, pastas, french fries, paired with a cold coke or a chocolate rich cup of coffee. Ooty-Guide page 7

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See A: Ooty Botanical Gardens B: Upper Bhavani Lake C: The Tea Factory D: Annamalai Temple E: Echo Rock Accommodation F: Sagar Holiday Resorts G: Meadows Residency H: King's Cliff I: Sherlock Hotel J: Hotel Beaumount K: Fortune Retreats L: Highland Hotel M: Fortune Hotel Sullivan Court Ooty N: Club Mahindra Derby Green Food O: Quality Restaurant P: The Garden Cafe Q: Willy's Coffee Pub R: Nahar's Sidewalk Cafe S: Ponmari Multicuisine Restaurant