Elshaddai Travels Ooty

06/02/2016

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Weather in Ooty Ooty weather in January January is at the middle of the Winter season. So the weather in january is cold and freezing. The temperature can vary between 0° C at night and upto 23° C …

09/10/2014

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22/09/2014

05/09/2014

Happy Teacher's day

04/09/2014

The Ooty Radio Telescope is located in Muthorai near Ootacamund (Ooty), south India. It is part of the National centre of Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of the well known Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) which is funded by the Government of India through the Department of atomic energy. The Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) is a 530-metre (1,740 ft) long and 30-metre (98 ft) wide Cylindrical Paraboloid telescope.It operates at a frequency of 326.5 MHz with a maximum bandwidth of 15 MHz at the front-end.

23/08/2014

Todas house
The Todas live in small hamlets called munds. The Toda huts, which are of an oval, pent-shaped construction, are usually 10 feet (3 m) high, 18 feet (5.5 m) long and 9 feet (2.7 m) wide. They are built of bamboo fastened with rattan and are thatched. Each hut is enclosed within a wall of loose stones. The front and back of the hut are usually made of dressed stones (mostly granite). The hut has a tiny entrance at the front – about 3 feet (90 cm) wide, 3 feet (90 cm) tall. This unusually small entrance is a means of protection from wild animals. The front portion of the hut is decorated with the Toda art forms, a kind of rock mural painting. Thicker bamboo canes are arched to give the hut its basic pent shape. Thinner bamboo canes are tied close and parallel to each other over this frame. Dried grass is stacked over this as thatch.
By- Pratheepps

22/08/2014

The Toda people are a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Before the 18th century, the Toda coexisted locally with other communities, including the Kota, and Kuruba, in a loose caste-like community organisation in which the Toda were the top ranking.The Toda population has hovered in the range 700 to 900 during the last century.Although an insignificant fraction of the large population of India, the Toda have attracted (since the late 18th century), "a most disproportionate amount of attention because of their ethnological aberrancy" and "their unlikeness to their neighbours in appearance, manners, and customs."The study of their culture by anthropologists and linguists would prove important in the creation of the fields of social anthropology and ethnomusicology.

21/08/2014

Katary Falls is approximately 10 km from Coonoor in the Nilgiris district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. At 180 feet in height, Katary Falls is third largest waterfall in the Nilgiris,one can reach it by trecking.

The falls are the site of India's first hydel power plant, the Kateri hydroelectric system.

20/08/2014

LAMB'S ROCK VIEW POINT
On the way to Dolphin's Nose, about 5½ km from Coonoor, lies Lamb's Rock, another vantage point to view the fantastic landscape and the tea and coffee plantations.

18/08/2014

DOLPHIN'S NOSE VIEWPOINT
Dolphin's Nose Viewpoint is a tourist spot in Coonoor, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu. Dolphin's Nose is well over 1,000 feet above sea level, 10 km from Coonoor and is a spectacular spot to visit. The tip of the peak resembles a dolphin's nose, hence the name Dolphin's Nose. It is an enormous rock formation that is entirely unique. There are gigantic ravines found both to the left and right of Dolphin's Nose and there is a view of inspiring Catherine Falls with its continuing stream several thousand metres below which is located a relatively short distance away opposite of the Dolphin's Nose.

Pic By -Sandip Bhattacharya

15/08/2014

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

14/08/2014

SIMS PARK
This is park-cum-botanical garden was developed around the natural contours of the land more than a hundred years ago and this is developed by Mr. J.D. Sims and Major Murray in the year of 1874.Naturally occurring trees, shrubs and creepers, are in the park as are many unusual species of plants that have been brought in from a variety of places around the world. The main event in this park is an annual fruit show and vegetable show held in May.