Red Hill Nature Resort is at one of the most beautiful locations of the ‘Queen of Hill Stations’ in India, Ooty. The resort offers a captivating panoramic view of the ‘Emerald Valley’ and the ‘Emerald Lake’. Being a family friendly resort in the middle of Red Hill tea estate with...
The narrow Muthorai Road leads out of Ooty to the villages of Palada, Ithalar and Emerald, all surrounded by acres of cabbage and carrot, and further to an area called Red Hills. Take this road away from the clamour of Ooty to put the magic back into jaded Nilgiri holidays....
My wife recently got a travel voucher for completing 5 years with her company, so we were pondering over which place to visit to utilize this bounty. We finalized on Red Hills near Ooty. I had read about it a lot and wanted to do this once, but due to...
Ootacamund or Ooty, the famed hill station of yesteryears was the must visit destination for everyone’s itinerary if they were visiting southern part of India. The lush green tea gardens, the exquisite hilly landscapes, gardens full of rich flora, year round good weather and a popular Bollywood shooting location, Ooty...
I’ve always wondered about the origin of the name Nilgiris, which doesn’t sound like a typical Tamil name. For the matter of fact it doesn’t even have any similarity with the names of any of the forests or hills like Madumalai, Wayanad, Makurti, Bandipur etc. in the surrounding areas. In...
What does one do when the mercury soars in Bangalore and rains play hide and seek? Old timers always said that it normally rains after Holi in Bangalore. Rain. It did. In few spots and after that there was not a sign of cloud anywhere. The heat intensified and it...