The Unseen Beauty of Upper Bhavani (Nilgiris)

-

This time myself and my friend Pandi decided to visit our friend sunil's home in Coonoor. The first thing I have decided is that we are not gonna visit the same old place(ooty lake, botonical garden, etc) as like all tourist. We have decided to visit the unseen beauty of the Nilgiris.

We 3 started from chennai on a friday night and reached metupalayam by Nilgiri Express at 6:15 Am saturday. My long time wish is gonna happen now!!!! yes, I am gonna travel in the ooty TOY TRAIN, recognized as the UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE.


Picturesque location


Myself and Sunil ready to start the journey 

Pandi and Sunil Checking the Rack and Pinion in Hillgrove station
If you are travelling to ooty, dont ever miss the journey of the Toy train and chose to travel in the months of october, november and december when the climate will be excellent and more than that you can see less crowd. If you travelling in summer, ahhhhhh crowd crowd crowd everywhere.



Beauty of Nilgiris

Rack seen between two Tracks

Throughout the train journey, we witnessed some excellent locations, beautiful flowers and waterfalls. It started to rain from the hillgrove station and I felt like I am in heaven, wow, the chillness, the locations,its just amazing.

Sunil Enjoying the Rain

Myself Enjoying the Cool Breeze

And finally in the afternoon, we reached sunil's home in Coonoor and had a warm welcome by his parents.

With Sunil's Family

After getting refreshed , we went to Sim's park and we are only three people out there. It was a quite  famous park, but the time we went, no crowd at all.We went back home and had a tasty dinner prepared by sunil's mom. Also w already arranged a cab via sunil's dad for the next day trip and i am very much excited.

 We decided to visit the below places.

 Upper Bhavani,
Avalanche,
Emeralad Lake

You wont get much information regarding the above places in internet.

Next day Morning 7 AM we got the cab and started our journey to upper bhavani. Since we travelled on the month of november, there are lot of water falls on the way. The road coonoor to upper bhavani is less traffic, less crowded and nice road. So no problem at all in travelling.

1st Waterfalls we witnessed on the road

2nd waterfalls on the road side

Surya (Sunil's Friend) also joined with us in the trip. Please take extra care while stepping into falls like this as we were suffered by blood sucking leeches on this falls. Our cab driver helped us in removing those leeches using his match box.

3rd and most beautiful waterfalls on the road side
The place in the above picture was mesmerizing and we enjoyed a lot.

Reached Manjoor and had our break fast

Road to upper Bhavani

The Unseen, No crowded beauty of Nilgiris


River in the forest

Into the Forest

Bit scary Though

You need proper permission to get into Upper Bhavani

Distance and route we travelled so far
Without proper permission we cant enter the upper bahavani dam.

Now we decided to head to Avalanche and Emerald.


Finally We reached Avalanche

Van arranged by forest department to get us into the forest

The origin of Bhavani River

Bhavani temple

Lakkidi
Bliss of the backwaters of upper bhavani
 After visiting Avalanche, we head towards Emerald lake.

Emerald Lake

Emerald Lake



After visiting Emerald Dam, We went back to sunil's home at coonor and started towards chennai.

That was an Amazing Trip.

Take away:

1.Lush Green everywhere
2.Not many tourists visits this place, so no crowd at all
3.weather is excellent.
4.Nice roads
5. Get proper permission to visit Upper bhavani
6. Have some snacks and fruits handy.
7.There might be few landslied on the road.

Totally that was a Great Trip we had and hope we will get permissions and visit upper bhavani one day.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Visiting VTV (Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya) Church in Alleppey ( Alapuzha)

-
Image
When we decided to visit Alleppey, the 1st thing that comes in my mind is the beautiful love story of Jessi and Karthick potrayed in the Tamil movie "Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya" where some of the portions were shot in the backdrop of this lovely backwaters of Alleppey. So we decided to visit a church which played an important role in the movie. Walkway to the Home stay Walkway Once we decided our destination, we preferred a calm and peaceful home stay and got one on the bank of the river Pamba. After getting down in Alleppey Railway station, we took an auto to reach Pallathuruthy Police station from where you have to either walk or you can ask the home stay persons to help you with their two wheeler to reach their home stay. But I preferred to walk and it was a good choice I made. It was a Friday morning , a pulic holiday followed by weekends. So there were a lot tourists around especially foreigners. The walkway was so nice where i was accompanied by the g
Read more

How to find original Santhi Sweets - Tirunelveli Halwa

-
Image
Whenever you came across the name 'Tirunelveli',the first thing that comes up in your mind is the delicious "Halwa" which is very famous in this land once ruled by the the great pandyas and cholas. Nellaiappar temple in Tirunelveli was constructed in 700AD by Pandyas. It is a temple for Lord Shiva and area of the temple is around 14 acres.The temple is well known for its renowned architecture and the Musical Pillars. But now whenever people hear about Tirunelveli they don’t remember these AD Stories and temple. Because the history was rewritten by one and only word Halwa, which is well known by its town identity “Tirunelveli Halwa”. This shop has no other branches When you are in tirunelveli and desperately want to taste the Halwa, the first obstacle that you will face is to find the original Halwa and the traditional shop which sells it. First lets list out the name of the traditional shops which sells the original Halwa with  the perfect bl
Read more

Puthur Jayaram Hotel - Sirkazhi

-
Image
We start to heard a lot about a Non- Veg Hotel which is an hour and half drive from my hometown. Even people from far distance are raving about this hotel and no surprise we wanted to visit that place. Myself and my friend Muruganand started from karaikal by 10:30 AM in the morning. The Hotel is located at Puthur which is at a distance of 8km from Sirkazhi Town and 50 km from Karaikal. Since the location is in the Chennai - Nagapattinam National Highway where there will be frequent travelers to Velankanni, Nagore, Thirunallar which is a  big advantage for this hotel. view of Puthur Jayaram Hotel We reached around 12 PM and hotel is already full. Luckily we got couple of seats and people who came after have to wait in the queue. The Hotel is very famous for Seer Fish Fry, Prawn fry , fish Gravy and Curd. I can say , you won't get these food items with this excellent quality anywhere apart from Puthur Jayaram Hotel and that too for an affordable price. I ordered th
Read more