Day 2: Places seen- Pykara falls: Pykara boat house: Glen Morgan: Shooting point: Emerald lake: Avalanche
Ooty -Gudalur road:
1> Pykara Falls:
This is not a big water fall. It is a step type of drop, 3 steps of 4~5 feet each. The surrounding scenery is beautiful and thanks to monsoon lush green trees and dark grey clouds welcome you.
Entrance to the falls:
River gushing through:
The falls:
This is one must visit place and offered one of the most scenic views. If going via Gudalur road to Ooty, this falls on the left side ~25 kms before Ooty.
Pykara Boat house:
It is around 2 kms from the falls and the roads are bad. It is the back waters of Pykara dam which has been made a tourist place by offering boating. The prices are steep and the boat ride gets boring after a while since there is no wild life to look out for. The weather was gloomy hence couldn't get good shots of the place.
Can be skipped. Ooty lake has better options and is cheaper compared to this place. None the less, the place as other places offers a wonderful view of back waters and the surrounding forest.
GlenMorgan:
This is one not so often visited place as it involves permissions and 9kms drive from main road. On the way back to Ooty, there is a left and a board saying GlenMorgan view point. the roads exist upto some point, then there was road laying work going on. The ride is amazing with slopes, twists and turns and amazing scenery all around.
This is a restricted area (some power plant related) and you need to take permission from the guard room. Unfortunately for us:
Me: Sir we want to visit the view point, can you please provide permission.
Guards: (who were in inners playing cards): No, some SI has come today. We can't let you go today.
Me: Sir we have come from Bangalore, we wanted to see the place, please is there a way?
Guard1: you come tomorrow, today we cant let you go.
Me: Ok sir, turns back to leave and walks 10 steps
Guard2: Sir, oye sir..
Me: (Happily jumping up and down and running to guard room) Yes sir..
Guard2: Keep your camera and bags here, go make it fast..
Thanks to them, we visited one of the best scenic locations of Ooty. Since we couldn't take camera, some snaps from phone camera.
A cable pulled train at the top. The tracks run all the way down till the bottom of the hill to the power plant.
I would rate this place at the top of the must visit charts in Ooty. Photos don't do justice to the beauty of this place. This place has to be seen in real to see the best of natures creation.
Shooting Point:Plain grasslands with beautiful views all around. Too much crowd, garbage thrown all around. The place is scenic alright, but we coming from GlenMorgan were like.. what the hell is there in this place..
Worth a visit as this wont take much time. You can go horse riding if you want here. The views are breath taking as rest of the places.
Now we had our fill of Ooty carrots on the way, we feared rain and had taken our rain gears in a back pack. Seeing no hint of rain, we headed back to room, left the back pack there as it was getting irritating to drag it around. Had hearty food at the lodge and left for our destination..
Avalanche & Emerald Lake:This is around 35 kms from Ooty. We left at around 2 to Avalanche. The roads were amazing, full of blind curves and I was loving every moment of ride. After 15 odd kms, the roads started to get foggy and started drizzling. This further made an already beautiful nature get ready with makeup . Couldn't get the camera out due to slight rain. Posting pics taken on the way from the road.
The place is a bit far to reach, but is worth every minute of time spent to reach there. We had to get our reluctant asses to get out of this beautiful place as I feared a similar fog filled road as seen yesterday.. and thoughts of riding these twisties in fog sent chills down the spine
This ended an amazing Day 2 of our trip.. Gobbled up all the food thrown at us and I was back to my new found love (bislery bottle) with open arms . Dreaming about the places to see next day.
Day 3 log is here
Ooty -Gudalur road:
1> Pykara Falls:
This is not a big water fall. It is a step type of drop, 3 steps of 4~5 feet each. The surrounding scenery is beautiful and thanks to monsoon lush green trees and dark grey clouds welcome you.
Entrance to the falls:
River gushing through:
The falls:
This is one must visit place and offered one of the most scenic views. If going via Gudalur road to Ooty, this falls on the left side ~25 kms before Ooty.
Pykara Boat house:
It is around 2 kms from the falls and the roads are bad. It is the back waters of Pykara dam which has been made a tourist place by offering boating. The prices are steep and the boat ride gets boring after a while since there is no wild life to look out for. The weather was gloomy hence couldn't get good shots of the place.
Can be skipped. Ooty lake has better options and is cheaper compared to this place. None the less, the place as other places offers a wonderful view of back waters and the surrounding forest.
GlenMorgan:
This is one not so often visited place as it involves permissions and 9kms drive from main road. On the way back to Ooty, there is a left and a board saying GlenMorgan view point. the roads exist upto some point, then there was road laying work going on. The ride is amazing with slopes, twists and turns and amazing scenery all around.
This is a restricted area (some power plant related) and you need to take permission from the guard room. Unfortunately for us:
Me: Sir we want to visit the view point, can you please provide permission.
Guards: (who were in inners playing cards): No, some SI has come today. We can't let you go today.
Me: Sir we have come from Bangalore, we wanted to see the place, please is there a way?
Guard1: you come tomorrow, today we cant let you go.
Me: Ok sir, turns back to leave and walks 10 steps
Guard2: Sir, oye sir..
Me: (Happily jumping up and down and running to guard room) Yes sir..
Guard2: Keep your camera and bags here, go make it fast..
Thanks to them, we visited one of the best scenic locations of Ooty. Since we couldn't take camera, some snaps from phone camera.
A cable pulled train at the top. The tracks run all the way down till the bottom of the hill to the power plant.
I would rate this place at the top of the must visit charts in Ooty. Photos don't do justice to the beauty of this place. This place has to be seen in real to see the best of natures creation.
Shooting Point:Plain grasslands with beautiful views all around. Too much crowd, garbage thrown all around. The place is scenic alright, but we coming from GlenMorgan were like.. what the hell is there in this place..
Worth a visit as this wont take much time. You can go horse riding if you want here. The views are breath taking as rest of the places.
Now we had our fill of Ooty carrots on the way, we feared rain and had taken our rain gears in a back pack. Seeing no hint of rain, we headed back to room, left the back pack there as it was getting irritating to drag it around. Had hearty food at the lodge and left for our destination..
Avalanche & Emerald Lake:This is around 35 kms from Ooty. We left at around 2 to Avalanche. The roads were amazing, full of blind curves and I was loving every moment of ride. After 15 odd kms, the roads started to get foggy and started drizzling. This further made an already beautiful nature get ready with makeup . Couldn't get the camera out due to slight rain. Posting pics taken on the way from the road.
The place is a bit far to reach, but is worth every minute of time spent to reach there. We had to get our reluctant asses to get out of this beautiful place as I feared a similar fog filled road as seen yesterday.. and thoughts of riding these twisties in fog sent chills down the spine
This ended an amazing Day 2 of our trip.. Gobbled up all the food thrown at us and I was back to my new found love (bislery bottle) with open arms . Dreaming about the places to see next day.
Day 3 log is here
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