We joined a tour bus and they took us around Ooty and Cunnoor to some pretty spectacular viewpoints. It’s really amazing to see the side of the mountain terraced and in some places the front door of one row of homes looks out onto the roof of the next row of homes.
We went to the highest peak in the south of India and stood 2.6 km above sea level! You could actually see clouds below and even with us. While at this peak we got some fried munchies. One was a battered and deep fried pepper. The one end of the pepper seemed okay – a little spicy but bearable, but as I got to the other end (I guess it was the end with all the seeds) my mouth was on fire! Still yummy though.
We went through several other viewpoints and of course they had to stop so that we could buy spices or tea. We had already bought ours the previous day so no commissions off of us today.
One of the spots we stopped was a tea plantation. Almost as far as the eye could see were tea bushes. Apparently they harvest the top three leaves from the bushes every two weeks! I can’t imagine how much tea that amounts too!
The girls were getting rather bored with us, but thankfully the last stop had a garden and children’s play park. They enjoyed the swings and climbing structures and rid themselves of enough energy that they were bearable for the rest of the afternoon.
We changed buses for the trip home and endured a crazy ride home. Thankfully we had given Roya her anti-nausea pill. Nadim, Yasmin and I felt a little queasy for the couple of hours that it took to descend the mountain, going down hairpin turn after hairpin turn. A few people on the bus had to hang their heads out the windows. This made us even more queasy, but things settled down once we finally reached the bottom. We arrived late after a four and a half hour trip. It’s incredible to think that Ooty is only 165 km from Mysore! CM
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