After enjoying the well trodden tourist path, we decided to go where others don’t go usually. The whole day we were passing through woods and being with unspoilt nature. Each of us were saying, “Wow! we never knew such places exist in our region”. All of these places became known to public after series of Tamil movie shootings here.

To start we walked down a pine forest region to reach a lake. There is no boating, no shops, no crowd, just the lake surrounded by green mountain ranges and some cows. We thought we found a great place. The driver told us to wait for the next.

Ofcourse to find something great you need to exert sweat, even in the cold climate. We did so when we walked up to a place called 9th mile. I don’t know the reason behind the name. But it is worth walking up. There is nothing but lush vegetation everywhere you see. The mountain range at the background makes it even more romantic.

When we got to Pykara waterfalls, we learnt that there is not much water there. Actually my sister was very much eager to see the ‘Nilgris Niagara’. But still we wanted to walk there to see how it looks without water. Good that we walked there. There was no waterfalls, but it wasn’t disappointing. It looked like we were in a canyon. We took lots and lots of pictures.

The only disappointing trip was to Pykara boat house. It wasn’t worth walking for an hour. Still, we were walking through the forest and so we did enjoy the walk, up and down.
Wasn’t it time to return? No, we still had Glenmorgan. There is a power station which lies between the mountains and a winch to get there, but we should have gotten the permission and we didn’t. But no worry, even without the winch it was a gorgeous view. We were surrounded by layers of mountain ranges and beneth us stood the thick, dense forest. We couldn’t have asked for more.

With a complete satisfaction, we drove back to Ooty. Still we cannot believe what we saw. We are still bewildered.

Our legs need rest, off we go for rest. Goodnight.