I have these urges to get out of this concrete jungle atleast once every 3 months if not less!! I was getting restless by end of March as my last trip was in december 2011- a little over 3 months already.
My daughter started with her summer holidays on 29th of March and off we went on a small trip on 30th March.
I had planned all this before hand :-)! Had included S&M, asked them if they and their little one V would also join us on a trip. They agreed and we had S's nephew, P also coming with us.
I had heard a lot about this place 25-30 kms after Ooty. A friend of mine had also visited earlier and only had praises for the place - Destiny Farm Stay, Ooty. I called them and booked 2 rooms for us. The idea was, we would do 1 day in the Nilgiri mountains and the next in Safariland,Masinagudi jungle.
We left on the 30th early morning. They came to our place at 5.45 in the morning. We stopped in Mysore for breakfast @8in Aramane restaurant. had a hearty breakfast. Then we were on our way again. We stopped again at 9.30am in PugMark restaurant in Bandipur ( Jungle Lodges) this is usually our pit stop every single time we have gone to Ooty in the last 4 years that now it has turned almost into a ritual. ;-)!Then we were on our way again to Ooty at 10am. We reached Ooty at about 11.15.am. We stopped again in CCD in ooty for another hour. Then we took the long route to the Destiny farm, went around Ooty. By the time we reached their office, we were tired and almost sick. but the drive was an awesome on nevertheless.
We reached Destiny only at 2pm. As soon as we saw the place, we forgot all or tiredness - the property was a piece of heaven that slipped to earth by mistake. The view was breath taking. We had left our vehicle in their main office as the road leading to the property is not pliable in our own vehicle unless it is a 4-wheel drive.They had animals - horse, cow, sheep, hen, geese, duck, rabbit. They have their own vegetable patch and grew all kinds of veggies. The food was delicious as it was prepared with fresh ingredients from their own farm. After lunch, we went down for a walk till the lake down far below- It was almost like a trek with the 2 little ones. They enjoyed it immensely. We just sat down in the lawn, played kiddie games :-). They had a camp fire and also a disco. The kids wanted to dance, we took them inside and they both danced and enjoyed a lot. We also became children and lost ourselves in the moment. We had oodles of fun! In the morning we got up, had a leisurely breakfast and left this place at 11am to go to Masinagudi. We stopped in Ooty town for some chocolates. Ooty was nice and chilly but as we started descending down the mountain, the heat hit us in waves and we wanted to go back up again. The view on the way down also was amazingly beautiful. We stopped on the way down for a cuppa of Chai and it was yumm! The right reddish brown color - which is my gauge for a perfect tea. I had 2 cups of the same and then we descended to Earth!
There is a second episode on our adventures in Safariland which is yet to be updated so do come back for Day-2 update.....
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