About Ooty

The Queen of Hill Stations - Udhagamandalam better known, as Ooty is the most popular hill station in the South India. Located in the Western ghats at a height of 2240metres above main sea level, Udhagamandalam is the headquarters of the Nilgiris district where the two ghats ranges meet. Nature has been generous with this region, which is by far the most beautiful in the state.

Apart from coffee and tea plantations, trees like confiers, eucalyptus, pine and wattle dot the hillside in Udhagamandalam and its encirons. Summer temperature is rarely higher than 22°c with a minimum of 10°c and winter is are distinctly cooler with a high of 18°c and a low 5°c. Curiously enough, this slice of paradise remained unknown to the great southern dynasties and it took the British to discover it in the early Eightith century(1800's).

They were, however, not the first inhabitants of this land as a tribe called Todas had been living there long before the British came, claiming that the Nilgiris had been their home since time immemorial. The credit for modernizing Udhagamandalam and making it accessible goes to the British who constructed the first railway line in the area and made it the summer capital of the Madras Presidency.

One of the most popular hill stations of India with a population of less than a lakh, it draws crowd from all parts of India. The beauty is bewitching and mind boggling.