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About Ooty
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- Ooty is located in Nilgiri District, Tamilnadu at an average elevation of 2623 metres.
- It has an average area of 36 sq kms.
- Summer Temperature - 25°C to 10°C
- Winter Temperature - 21°C to 5°C
- It recieves average 121cms of Rainfall
- Discovered by British in 1800
- Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and English Languages are spoken here
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Ooty - Location
Ooty is the short form of Ootacamund (Officially - Udagamandalam), due to the official name it is also sometimes abbreviated as Udhagai. Ootacamund is a popular hillstation and is the district capital of Nilgiri District of Tamilnadu, India. This famous hill station is located at the junction of Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka.
Ooty - Etymology
In early times Ootacamund was know as OttaikalMandu. "mund" is a tamil word for a toda village. The word "Otha-cal" means "single stone" which perhaps refers to a sacred stone revered by the local toda people. Thus the name slowly changed and became "Ooty".
Ooty - History
Ooty was originally inhibited by tribes Todas and Badagas. These people then lived there before british made it there summer headquarters. Badagas were known for farming crops and the Todas for raising water buffalo. The hills were developed rapidly under the British Raj because they were almost entirely owned by private British citizens. British were highly impressed by the beauty of this hill station and named it as "Queen of Hill Stations". It is reached via winding hill roads or a complicated rack railway system built in 1908 by impassioned and enterprising British citizens with venture capital from the Madras government.
Ooty - Sightseeing
Ooty is a land of dreams and pictursque hill station where you can move around the town to enjoy the scenic surroundings. You can visit the tourist spots in Ooty, enjoy boating and fishing. You can also enjoy wildilife or you can go out for excursion and enjoy high peaks and waterfalls.
Ooty - How to Reach
Road: Ooty is well connected by Roads and can be reached easily from major cities like chennai, coimbatore, coonoor, mysore, calicut, bangalore, kochi, kodaikanal etc.
Rail: Ooty is connected to Chennai by nightly connecting train service. Mettupalayam provides the interchange between 'The Nilgiri Passenger' NMR metre gauge service and the Nilgiri Express broad gauge service. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) is one of the oldest mountain railways in India. The NMR was declared by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in July 2005. This connects Ootacamund with the town of Mettupalayam, at the foothills of the Nilgiri Mountains. It is the only rack railway in India, and uses the Abt system.
Air: Ooty does not have a civilian airport and is not connected by air. The nearest airport is at Coimbatore which has domestic and international flights to several major Indian cities
Rail: Ooty is connected to Chennai by nightly connecting train service. Mettupalayam provides the interchange between 'The Nilgiri Passenger' NMR metre gauge service and the Nilgiri Express broad gauge service. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) is one of the oldest mountain railways in India. The NMR was declared by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in July 2005. This connects Ootacamund with the town of Mettupalayam, at the foothills of the Nilgiri Mountains. It is the only rack railway in India, and uses the Abt system.
Air: Ooty does not have a civilian airport and is not connected by air. The nearest airport is at Coimbatore which has domestic and international flights to several major Indian cities
