How To Reach Ooty

Getting to Ooty is easier than what it used to be. Just fly to Coimbatore, the industrial town and take a bus or hire a taxi and travel on the road that zigzags higher and higher, among damp, mossy smells and frequent notice boards warning of the lethal effects of passing on the hair-raising bends. Sounds frightening? Don't worry, there is an alternate.

Make sure you reach the Mettupalayam Railway Station on time. You can take the slow, puffing little train, with its steam engine at the rear, which shoves few carriages up into the hills, with long pauses for panting and reflections. It's an experience you'd never want to miss on your visit to Ooty.

There is another route to reach Ooty via Mysore, with the jungle dropping away from the sheer edge of the road-silent and hot, full of sleeping game of animals that wakes up at twilight and can often be seen crossing the road, a flash of stripe or a dappled streak bounding off in the motorist's headlight.

The connectivity to Ooty has increased of late. There are numerous buses that run from the plains all over. It may come as a surprise, there are buses that to Ooty from Chennai, Banglore, Kodaikanal, Pondicherry, Trichy and almost all the districts in Ooty. Also, you can find Government and private bus operators to Kerala and other part of Karnataka, like Hassan, Manglore and the likes.

Map Of Ooty

The first glimpse of the marvelously soft green hills can leave you with nothing less than an awestruck feeling. Yes! This is paradise and so it seems. Located at 7378 feet above sea level in the Nilgiri Range-the celebrated Blue Hills of South India, which rise to nearly 9000 feet above sea level, Ooty is a wonder hidden among the curiously shaped crags.