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It is one of the most popular tourist resorts in India. Nilgiris means "Blue Mountains". It is a land of picturesque picnic spots. Used to be popular summer and weekend getaway for the Britishers during the colonial days. It is situated at an altitude of 2,240 meters above sea level. An added attraction for the tourists to Udagamandalam is the mountain train journey on a ratchet and pinion track which commences from Kallar, near Mettupalayam and wends its way through many hair-raising curves and fearful tunnels and chugs along beside deep ravines full of verdant vegetation, gurgling streams and tea gardens.

Also it is a good place to chill out over the weekend with friends, family in group.

If the flower season is up, perhaps there may be more to see.

Book first class tickets and it does not cost much.

Do visit the Dodabetta peak, it is a good view point - if the skies are clear! Apart from that St. Stephen's church is also a peaceful place to visit. Other places can be visited as per your choice. Coonoor is about 20kms away and also has good ranges & points.

.tea gardens..nice food..peaks...and lakes..botanical gardens...five days minimum for relaxation

The first train leaves Ooty 9:15. The last train leaves Conoor at 4:15 for which you must be in queue at 3 PM Conoor has tea gardens and a few other sight seeing spots (Not worth mentioning) While in ooty, you must go to Pykara Lake - preferably on a weekday - nice views and a nice road side shanty with north indian cooks which serves nice Chinese. Pykara closes at 5, so you must start from ooty by 3:15

People go to Ooty from the plains of South India for short holiday to enjoy excellent whether, play golf ( two interesting golf courses are there including one in Conoor. Botanical gardens in Ooty and Conoor are well kept.

The roads are generally not too bad but still needing a lot of work. We were fortunate to find an autorickshaw driver who was very good and economical too so we went all around the place. There is an excellent Chinese restaraunt and very good vegetarian restaraunts around town. The weather was glorious, cold crisp nights and warm days. The lake and boat house were excellent and we enjoyed a horse ride around the lake.