For the week end I went on a trip to Udhagamandalam (or just 'Ooty') along with some Indians from IAESTE and other interns. Ooty is located in the hills, a bit south from here and offered familiar climate with temperatures around 10 C and rain. Though the scenery was beautiful and the our group was nice. As usual the journey took quite some time, but was exciting as I was going in a sleeper train for the first time. The train has some kind of compartments with six "beds" each, but there are no doors, so everything is open. It's quite weird to sleep in such a setting with so many people around, but still I had a good sleep.
Just see some pictures:
Tea plantations. I will bring some samples for you to test!
Some places looked just like Austria, with rivers and pine trees instead of beach an palm trees. I enjoyed the familiar setting
As in many places, also in Ooty we found monkeys. The prevalent species is the Bonnet Macaque (Lat.: Macaca radiata, D.: Indischer Hutaffe). They are very tame and hang around wherever food waste can be found (i.e. everywhere).
note the name
One of these characteristic Indian shops, where they sell just about anything you need. Ranging from single cigarettes to soap, and phone cards to food. I usually go for the amazingly sweet sweets.
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