India From Top to Bottom 2005: From Kannyikumari to Kashmir
South India
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The bus ride going up from Madumalai Forest Reserve to Ooty has some of the most beautiful sites anywhere on earth, with emerald terraced paddy fields, blue lakes, dramatic mountain peaks, and lush green forests. |
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Downtown Ooty. Ooty is a former British hill station at 6000 ft. in elevation, offering very cool, refreshing relief from the intense heat and humidity of the Indian plains below. |
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Early morning on the verandah of the Nilgiri Woodlands Hotel in Ooty, just outside our room. Photo: Lisa |
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The venerable Ambassador, a '50s-style automobile still being made today,
and still especially popular with taxi drivers because just about any garage
mechanic will know how to service one. Ooty. |
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A taste of the old colonial charm at Nilgiri
Woodlands Hotel in Ooty.
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