February 15, 2018
After the fall of Tipu Sultan in 1799, the Nilgiris was under the British, mainly for military reasons. The colonial power did not want the Nilgiri […]
February 15, 2018
The summer capital of the Madras Presidency of the East India Company of the British. The Madras Presidency included the present day Tamil Nadu, Northern Kerala […]
February 15, 2018
The game of Snooker was invented over a century ago at the Ootacamund Club. A notice in the billiards room explains that Colonel Sir Neville Francis […]
February 15, 2018
The Ooty Lake was created between 1823 and 1825 by the then Collector of Coimbatore Mr John Sullivan as a source for irrigation and fishing. It […]
February 15, 2018
At a gradient of 1 in 12.28 The brain behind the Nilgiri Mountain Railways
between Conoor and Mettupalayam, the Nilgiri Mountain Railway is the steepest in Asia and was […]
February 15, 2018
The Nilgiri Railways is a
‘UNESCO World Heritage Site’. It was declared in July 2005 as an extension of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. It covers a distance […]
February 15, 2018
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway also has the record of being the slowest train in India averaging 10 kmph. That means you can literally walk out from […]
February 15, 2018
DodaBetta Peak, located 9 km from Ooty, on the Ooty-Kotagiri Road, is the highest Peak in Tamil Nadu and probably the fourth highest in South India […]
February 15, 2018
Thanks to the British rule and the Britishers love for this place and cricket, the legendary English batsman Michael Colin Cowdrey, was born in Ooty on […]