Udhagamandalam

Udhagamandalam
OOTY / UDHAGAI / UDHAGAMANDALAM / OOTACAMUND
Ooty is called the ‘Scotland of the East’ A Great Hill Station at Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu state...
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India named it the ‘Queen of the Blue Mountains’.

Botanical Garden

Centenary Rose Park

this garden has been beautifully laid out in terraces with rose tunnels, pergolas and bowers with rose creepers. To commemorate  the  centenary Flower   Show,   the  Rose Park  was  established  at Vijayanagaram in Udhagamandalam  covering  an  area  of   4  hectares   in  five  terraces.  Today this garden has the largest collections of roses in the country   like  Hybrid Tea Roses, miniature rose, Floribunda, Ramblers, roses of unusual colours like black and green are some of the more than 3,000 

varieties of roses that will captivate your senses. The   Rose  Garden  is  situated  in  slopes  of  the  Elk  Hill.  The   rose  varieties   planted   in  this  park were  assembled  from  different sources.    The  'Nila  Maadam'  is  located in  a   spot   from   where  viewers   can   see   the   entire   rose   garden.

Ooty  Lake

Pykara

Adam's Fountain

Charring Cross - Ooty

Glenmorgan which was then very famous for the Tea estate

Kalhatty Falls

Ketti Valley View

Wax World, Ooty
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Avalanche
The views  from the top of the hill at Avalanche give a magnificent sight of the Avalanche Valley and reservoir  In many places here, the shoals are so thick that even sunlight cannot penetrate.  Avalanche is home to a wide variety of birds in great abundance.