Hotel Lakeview Ootacamund
West Lake Road Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, 643001, India
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Monsoon Madness!
... priory to the Church. Our room does have something of a cell like feel to it!!
We visited a tea plantation today and were allowed to look round the processing plant. Fascinating and very Dickensian!! We were told that the tips are picked from the bushes twice a month and the best tea comes from the highest slopes. The tea bushes like water but they don't like their roots to stand in it which is why the ...
Ooty 6
... gave me a brochure about the library and allowed me to take a tour of the premises before they closed for lunch.
Tuesday, 19 April, 2011
Well, this day has finally arrived - my day to leave Ooty. Being the planner that I am, I had been meticulously planning out this day in my mind for the past week. After my usual breakfast in my room (muesli with bananas, grapes and cashew nuts), I went out to the supermarket to buy some bread with which to ...
Ooty 4
... br> While I was waiting for this man, another man approached me - and started talking international politics with me. It turns out that this second man was a retired Indian air force officer - and he had his share of opinions on world politics. In the meantime the first man, Chandra, caught up with us and we all walked and talked a little before the air force man had to leave us. I then proceeded to Chandra's house - which was like ...
Ooty 3
... me, did you think that I was perhaps just passing by - on my way to the post office or something? WTF were you thinking?) Just to make sure, he even asked me the same question once again: "Are you in queue?" After confirming that I wasn't standing there just for my health, he reluctantly moved to his rightful place in the queue just behind me. I kept waiting for him to provoke me so that I could be justified in punching him in the face - which ...
Tea and Free safari
... claimed there were regularly crocodiles in it! We stayed in a hut overlooking the river scene with a brilliant sunset and rise to enjoy.
The next day we intended to set off before dawn to get back to Bangalore in a day, but opened the hut door to the sounds of monkeys screaming and lot's of dark shapes milling about- looked like deer and boar, so we waited for the sun to come up. We had also been ...



