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Travel Blogs from Coonoor
Registry office frustration
... a date after I had left Coonoor,. We quibbled away, he kept trying to catch me out so that they didn't have to look for it: "Are you sure it was registered here? no doubts? what if we can't find it?". Finally, he said, come back at 2pm (it was 12.45 at this point).
2pm rolled round and I returned, assuming they had done something about it. Oh how wrong I was. He looked at me a little blankly then "oh 1924." It turned out they had simply had a lunch break. He ...
Kotagiri to Coonoor
... the children and went to get more money and lots of snacks.
It bewildered me how much more built up Coonoor seemed since I had last been there thirty years previously. Then only the towns most lower regions had been a place of bustle and chaos. A road from there had led up to sedate British Raj lands, big beautiful old houses with big gardens, very classy and peaceful. Now it seemed that the towns lower bustle had erupted all over the higher ...
Stranded... almost (Part II)
... and families when we get back!
The view from lamb's rock (and the rock itself) was stunning - we had a clear blue sky, and although there was a dusty haze hanging across the sky, we could tell that the view stretched for miles and miles. Having been told that the walk to dolphin's nose was actually along the winding mountain road that the bus had been driving down, we opted to catch the bus there. After an hour of waiting for the bus to turn up, taking in the ...
Back to where it all began... kinda
... and we wandered off without a second thought. We followed the signs down a side road, and then followed some locals who walked into what appeared to be a working building site! Under some scaffolding and over some concrete steps we found a canteen with tables set up and wash basins by the entrance. We found ourselves a table and looked around to see people eating rice and curries off banana leaves with their hands - Hayley said "there's no cutlery here", with a cheeky grin ...
Another day rambling around Avalanche
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Beautiful vast meadows by the lakeshore near the check post.
Grey skies and grey lake
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