Coonoor



Place - Coonoor
Distance from bangalore - 300 Km
Resort we stayed : http://www.bisoncountry.in/Home.html
    Very nice place to stay, beautiful view from the rooms. Tariff is also very reasonable. Very nice food, but they only provide only breakfast and dinner. will recommend everyone for stay.
Activities : Multiple indoor and outdoor games.
Animals  - Jungle foul(teetar), duck, rabbits, hens. (Kids and enjoy)

We were just back from our Europe trip and we had a long weekend. And we decided to go to coonoor this time. I said to amber that we have already been to ooty 3 times then why we are planning to go to coonoor because this is almost the same place and only 15 km far from Ooty. But who listen to their wife. :)
                          Second challenge I had was to adjust the oncall. But after my long europe trip i dont want to ask for any oncall changes. I decided to work from there if there is any task. So even after having 1 oncall, we were good to go.

DAY 1 :
First time we started at 6.45 AM.( please mind out earliest was 7 AM for coorg trip) we reached almost at expected time ie 2.30 PM to our resort. Since there was no lunch service at out resort so we planned to search for good restaurant on the way and we will explore the area also. on the way we found "The Gateway Hotel" and decided to eat there as I was very hungry and I was driving. So I didn't care for the money. :D The food was awesome and we all enjoyed it a lot. We decided to enjoy the evening in the resort as the view were awesome and they had various indoor and outdoor games.

DAY 2 :
Next day we decided to do trekking through tea-gardens. So we started the trek after breakfast. The trek was so beautiful and awesome that i had to believe my husband that Coonoor is different then Ooty and more beautiful than Ooty. (Husbands are mostly right. specially my sweetu). Let me tell you the difficult part of the trekking, The trek was muddy and our shoes and shocks were full of mud after the trek. The trek was very long around 10km, very beautiful and tiring trek but trek is suppose to be tiring. Right?
I emotionally black-mailed amber for this pic. :)
                           We had the food again on "The Gateway Hotel" and enjoyed the evening in the hotel and had camp fire during the dinner time.

DAY 3 :
We visited to few view points next day and way back to bangalore.


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