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King's Cliff Ootacamund

Havelock Road Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, 643001, India

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Ooty 6

A travel blog entry by bangkokrandy

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... the mountain was stark.

When we arrived at the train station in Mettupayalam it was POURING down rain - so hard that I could hardly see the station from the car, which was parked in a parking lot across the street from the station. (Due to the way the station is set up, it is not possible to drive the car right up to the station.) We waited in the taxi for about fifteen minutes for the rain to subside - but when it didn't, I put on my rain jacket and made ...

Ooty 4

A travel blog entry by bangkokrandy

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... in history couldn't figure out what even I was able to figure out with just a little thinking. I find it hard to forgive such people - for causing so many people to suffer so horribly because of their "bright" ideas.

I'll close out today with an article sent to me by a friend, Christopher, in Bangkok, about the hygienic condition of the drinking water in India. Related to this, a friend in Bangkok told me that her (foreign) ...

Ooty 3

A travel blog entry by bangkokrandy

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... employee with me to show me where the shop was. And it's a good thing, too, because I would have never found the shop myself. It was a lot more than "just around the corner".

Once in the appropriately named "Professional Couriers" shop, I explained to the manager and sole employee, Mr. T. Sekar, what I wanted to do. He proceeded to write out Tawan's address on a piece of paper that he taped to the box of merchandise - and further ...

Ooty 1

A travel blog entry by bangkokrandy

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... me, but only down in the main house rather than one of rooms in the hill-top portion of the guest house with a more panoramic view. I agreed to take that room for one night with the expectation of moving up the hill tomorrow.

I then got a rickshaw to bring me to the YWCA to get my bags and then to convey me to my new home at Reflections. The rickshaw driver asked for 80 rupees, but when I counter-offered 70, he stood by his price, saying, "Sir, I think ...

Greetings from Ooty

A travel blog entry by janagorski

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... was about 3pm at this stage and neither of us had had anything to eat since 8am that morning. On arriving at the "New Bus Station" (which I don't think even has an English name yet, as most of them do), and asking for the bus to Ooty, we were hurried to a bus, engine running and just about to leave.
Starving and exhausted, we were passengers on the hairiest bus ride I hope to ever have. The road to Ooty is narrow and winding around steep declines ...

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