My Camera Log

A Journey on TOY Train J For the last day of our stay in Ooty we decided to take a ride on Toy train to Coonoor, Because of time constrain we could not make it up to Mettupalayam, but as I heard from many people the stretch between Coonoor to Mettupalayam is too good compare to Ooty to Coonoor. From Ooty to Coonoor its around 20 mins and train journey will be of 1 hour 30 minutes. Nischith went to station and took tickets for us; general class tickets will cost 10/- rupees per head. There is no reservation policy for general class, everyone should stand in a que and guards will allow 10 people to one compartment.   First class tickets that cost seventy five rupees per head are also available on this train, but since the numbers of first class seats are very limited, they got sold out very quickly. The train will stop in 3 or 4 different stations; I have not noticed all the stations (actually we were busy in photo shoot). We reache...

Emerald dam is one of the lovely lakes around Ooty and it has a scenic view and attractive. After exploring   Avalanche   and   Upper Bhavani lakes   we headed towards Emerald dam. It is  a beautiful place with pine trees and farms surrounding the blue water of Emerald. This is one of the must visit places when you are around Ooty. We can’t go near the dam its restricted area, but there are many wonderful viewpoints created by the dam’s back water. Don’t know the exact name of this spot, but they mentioned it as shooting spot. I felt this is the perfect place to click a pic which I was waiting to from long time (wanted to take a pic of my car near some water place). I could say this is one of the great trip because we could cover 3 beautiful lakes of Ooty  😊 Avalanche Lake, Upper Bhavani Lake and Emerald dam  We reached back Ooty around 6.30 p.m. with loads of good memories  Next plan of the trip was to travel to Connoor on  Toy train  ...

Plan for the day was to visit Upper Bhavani Lake, We were ready by 7.30 a.m. and had some time to kill before the start of the ride. So started our all time favorite task ‘photo shoot’ around the guest house   Since we were staying in  Avalanche guest house  which was next to forest check post, we are the only group for the first batch of the ride. This ride operates between 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.  Fees Details: Each Person           : 150/- (Ride will be in Swaraj Mazda mini bus). Student Permission : 75/- Jeep Ride                : 1200/- (Max 8 people are allowed in one Jeep, better to take this ride). Still Camera             : 20/- Video Camera         : 50/- We don’t wanted to wait for other people to join, we hired a jeep and started our ride towards Upper Bhavani Lake.  It ...

Once we are done with  safari in Bandipur  our next plan was to reach Ooty and join Nischith. He was in Ooty for a vacation and we were about to join him, with the help of his uncle he managed to book a forest guest house at Avalanche. I heard its a quite a big process and we were very much thankful to him for making the necessary arrangements. Last time for  Mukurthi Trekking  also he only helped us to take permission from forest department. We reached Ooty around 11.30 and joined Nischith, got freshened up and we were all set to go to Avalanche. We have to carry all the necessary items to prepare dinner and breakfast from Ooty only. Finished all our shopping in hurry, finished our lunch at Nischith’s home only and started our journey towards avalanche around 2.30PM.  Avalanche forest guest house is located around 25Kms from Ooty along the road leading towards Majoor via Emerald, easily it will take 2 hours to reach the destination, road condition is one ...

Lot of discussion was happing in office break time about some outing, Sunil & Pradeep wanted to go to Bandipur National park. Even for me, it’s been quite long time I visited beautiful forest. We planned to visit Bandipur on last week of August. Bandipur is around 230 Kms from Bangalore, We can take Mysore road to reach Bandipur, hardly it will take around 5 hours to reach Bandipur (depends on traffic in all the cities we cross and road condition). Most importantly Bandipur Forest will be closed from 9.00 PM to 6.00PM. Keeping all this things in mind we left Bangalore at 11.30PM, our plan was to leave Bangalore bit late to avoid weekend traffic and reach Gundlupete and stop near Café Coffee Day. You will get many Café coffee day on this Mysore road and its perfect place to do time pass. After crossing Mysore road condition is not so good (they are constructing road and work is in progress, not sure when they are going to complete it) till Gundlupete. We reached Gundlup...