Hotel Khems Ootacamund
Ettines Road Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, 643001, India
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Monsoon Madness!
... far too smart to be caught loitering at the sideof the road!! We came down to Coonoor on the Ooty 'toy train' which is now a world heritage site. It went through beautiful countryside and tea plantations. Tthe houses in the hillside villages are all painted in different colours - much like Tobermory!
The hotel sits beside a very old Catholic Church - All Saints Church, and the hotel property was built ...
Ooty 6
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Monday, 18 April, 2011
My main project today was making my way up the hill to the Ooty public library - to donate some books that I brought with me, had already read, and didn't want to carry back home with me.
The library was about to close for lunch at 13:00 as I was arriving, but I did manage to hand over four books about India to the very friendly ladies at the ...
Ooty 4
... for him?
It is somewhat unusual to expect a complete stranger to wait for you while you do your shopping - and to wait - for what? But, with the weather being perfect and with me having a bit of time on my hands (having saved an hour by not taking that bus to Coonoor), I waited ten minutes for him. He was buying kerosene to use for his cooking - at a place where it could be bought for a government-subsidized rate - for poor ...
Ooty 3
... in between me and the elderly couple in front of me! Ha! I was so shocked that it took me a moment to decide what to do. I tapped the guy on the shoulder - and he turned around - and had the gall to ask me, "Are you in queue?" (Translated into American: "Are you waiting in this line?") So furious was I at him that all I could think of to say was "OF COURSE!" (What I didn't say was "Just because there was six inches between me and the people in ...
Tea and Free safari
... going to in my opinion. We wound down the mountain side on our way out (after I'd got us lost for about 2 hours) and found ourselves in a safari park. The road back up towards Mysore is through national park which costs 20p to enter and we saw peacocks, eagles, monkeys, wild boar, herds of spotted deer and wild elephants (as well as a working huge tusker). We were warned off jumping in a river there by ...



