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On December 18, the plan was made to travel to ooty. first i drove from Chennai to my home town vriddachalam to pick my parents, cousin brother and his wife and their 2.5 year old kid.
december 19: started around 6 am.
route: Vriddachalam-attur-salem-bhavani-avinashi-annur-meetupalayam. drove steadily around 90 and reached mettuplayam by 12.30 pm for lunch.
for mettuplayam took the kallar-kothaigiri route. right after crossing kallar check post, we had our first wild life sighting. herd of deers. we are clipping and pics and suddenly a police patrol honked behind us. I drop the camera down. that's it. photo mode is not working. only videos can be taken. the patrol asked us to move and we obliged.
reached ooty around 3 pm after a leisurely ride. first we decided to stay in ooty tamil nadu tourism hotel. it was too cold by 3.30pm. the kid can't bear the cold. then we decided to move to the plains and so my father suggested tamil nadu hotel in mudumalai. we started from there and by the time we took kalhatty route and reached the tamil nadu hotel by 6pm.
then the plan was
december 20: sincara,moyar,gopalsamy hills,safari. there came a schoking news that safari's are closed for census. it will be open only on december 24.
december 21: upper bhavani, avalanche and emrald dam
december 22: ooty town
december 23: going down via manjoor,geddhai,,mulli,karamadai.
the four day tour was cut short into one day tour due to the sudden illness to my grand mother and we returned to Chennai.
continuation of December 19: we ordered the food, we found we are short of milk for the kid. so after 6.45pm me and my cousin went to mudumalai to buy some milk for the kid and eatables. while returning at a blind left turn a leopard crossed the road from right to left and i was doing around 40. the leopard was very close the the car,it was sudden input and the car went of the road and i heard a loud thudding sound. the car was still running. i slotted into reverse the rear wheel was spinning and the car is not moving. my cousin frightened me telling that the leopard may be near don' get down. i prayed my stars and got down. as it was dark, couldn't spot anything. but i could see the front wheels are in air. then i found the car has climbed a small stone and actually the stone was right under the engine guard. i tried pushing the car to no use. then we slotted into reverse gear, revved hard and the car come out and i was closely looking at the warning lights.nothing came up. then we are made to wait for 15 frightening minutes by a jumbo in the middle of the road and at last by 7.50 we made to the hotel. then i checked the sump guard has a big dent and was bent in. the guys at the hotel told me not to worry. it can be fixed. next morning took the car to a repair local guy and he hammered the guard to get it back in shape. then we continued the forest visit. first was moyar, singara and then to gopalsamy betta. after coming from gopalsamy betta we received the news of my grand mother's illness. then we packed and left for Chennai.
december 19: started around 6 am.
route: Vriddachalam-attur-salem-bhavani-avinashi-annur-meetupalayam. drove steadily around 90 and reached mettuplayam by 12.30 pm for lunch.
for mettuplayam took the kallar-kothaigiri route. right after crossing kallar check post, we had our first wild life sighting. herd of deers. we are clipping and pics and suddenly a police patrol honked behind us. I drop the camera down. that's it. photo mode is not working. only videos can be taken. the patrol asked us to move and we obliged.
reached ooty around 3 pm after a leisurely ride. first we decided to stay in ooty tamil nadu tourism hotel. it was too cold by 3.30pm. the kid can't bear the cold. then we decided to move to the plains and so my father suggested tamil nadu hotel in mudumalai. we started from there and by the time we took kalhatty route and reached the tamil nadu hotel by 6pm.
then the plan was
december 20: sincara,moyar,gopalsamy hills,safari. there came a schoking news that safari's are closed for census. it will be open only on december 24.
december 21: upper bhavani, avalanche and emrald dam
december 22: ooty town
december 23: going down via manjoor,geddhai,,mulli,karamadai.
the four day tour was cut short into one day tour due to the sudden illness to my grand mother and we returned to Chennai.
continuation of December 19: we ordered the food, we found we are short of milk for the kid. so after 6.45pm me and my cousin went to mudumalai to buy some milk for the kid and eatables. while returning at a blind left turn a leopard crossed the road from right to left and i was doing around 40. the leopard was very close the the car,it was sudden input and the car went of the road and i heard a loud thudding sound. the car was still running. i slotted into reverse the rear wheel was spinning and the car is not moving. my cousin frightened me telling that the leopard may be near don' get down. i prayed my stars and got down. as it was dark, couldn't spot anything. but i could see the front wheels are in air. then i found the car has climbed a small stone and actually the stone was right under the engine guard. i tried pushing the car to no use. then we slotted into reverse gear, revved hard and the car come out and i was closely looking at the warning lights.nothing came up. then we are made to wait for 15 frightening minutes by a jumbo in the middle of the road and at last by 7.50 we made to the hotel. then i checked the sump guard has a big dent and was bent in. the guys at the hotel told me not to worry. it can be fixed. next morning took the car to a repair local guy and he hammered the guard to get it back in shape. then we continued the forest visit. first was moyar, singara and then to gopalsamy betta. after coming from gopalsamy betta we received the news of my grand mother's illness. then we packed and left for Chennai.
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