Ooooohty

In the last three days I traveled in 3 southern states. Alongwith a friend who agreed to accompany me to ooty we spent two days in there.
We started from Bangalore in a bus. The bus journey started with a nice fresh-after-rain weather in Bangalore. Bangalore is some place which will have this cool breeze kind of weather all round the year. Not that it will not become hot but clouds tend to stick there mostly. Whenever I am there, more often than not I have seen rain. Anyways the bus journey took around whole 12 hrs to reach Ooty, which happens to be 300 km from Bangalore. We clicked a lot of pictures in the way. I was taking the isle seat so it was my friend who did most of the clicking. There was this couple and the kid with them on seat behind us. The kido[photo] was very cute and clicked his (or her) picture after getting kind permission from the parents.
After reaching the Ooty bus stand, two of us tried to find information from local people as to what all we can do/see in there. A guy met us standing in the middle of bus stand who claimed that his 'friend' has a guesthouse logging in the Mudumalai forests. Btw this forest also has forest safaris. So this gentleman immediately wards us off on a bus to this place. But while on the bus we get down at a place in between. As soon as we got down from the bus, we searched for public toilets and started the day with essentials. After that my friend had breakfast and I brushed teeth and had breakfast. Some of us are toothpaste conservationists. :D The weather was at its best when it started to rain. This place called Pykara had two things - 1) something what people there called waterfall[photo] and (2) a boat house where we never got a boat even after waiting 1 hour.
From there we got to the much famous 'shooting point' of the Ooty. It is a famous spot for many Bollywood films. Its more like a large hillock, a very gradual one. But nevertheless a very lively one.

And eventually it turns out such that we hitchhiked around Ooty the whole of this day. More than half our hiking was under umbrella which was our only home for the day! One umbrella covering one person, one backpack and one camera.[photo]

The day ended when we came back hitchhiking in the heavy rain back to Ooty to book a weary old looking hotel room for 1500 bucks. By the time we reached all our cloths including the one on us were drenched. We had no cloths to sleep in and only single blanket. Now we did not want to get cozy in a single blanket in this state but the chill was considerable. Finally my friend sacrificed and took bedsheets instead. :)

The second day was a little less happening. We booked a tour bus for tour of Conoor and ooty which eventually ended up in only Conoor because of time constraints. We enjoyed fulsomely the freshly made chocolates of Ooty, specially the dark chocolates. With an elated joyous feeling and undying memories we came back to Bangalore by a night bus. I had one full day in Bangalore before taking a train in the night. But it was good only for sleeping. :)