Ooty-The Queen of Hills continued

Please read the first part first.

After Lake we visited Botanical Garden (Must See Spot). As we already knew that we have less time and we have to cover a lot of spots. So we all agreed on a timeframe of 1hr. In this hour we had to complete Botanical garden and Lunch. 6 friends first visited Botanical Garden, I was one of them. IMPORTANT point: if you are going ooty, give maximum time to this Garden, it's the best spot in whole Ooty. Whole garden is more that awesome, there are no words to explain the garden. You can find hundreds of plants, flowers there. If you are interested in gardening, you can buy seeds from there. The Garden contains trees from different areas of India as well as the World, Spanish European all kind of flowers. At that time I was thinking that I should have given more time to this Garden rather than Lake and Rose garden (since it was no rose season, we found less roses than that garden could have).

After Botanical Garden, we had our lunch and purchased homemade CHOCOLATES from there. Chocolates are the specialty of Ooty. Then we rushed to cab, other 11 also came at the same time. Few trainees  from those were late, they were the same who came late in each and every spot. But I cannot say a lot to them, as I had to take all of them together.

Then we moved to the highest point in Ooty-Doodabeta. The view from Doodabeta was cool. Its best to visit that spot in the evening, and you will reach there in same time. The clouds, the atmosphere can only be understood if you experience it. It was a photographic spot too, we took pictures of diffrent shapes of clouds, our buddies etc.

Now the last point- The Mettupalayam View, this point is great to see in light as well as in dark. In light it's a scenic view of city while in dark lights made this view great. We took a group picture there, as it was a demand (a good one) of one friend.

After all these spots we finally reached our home. My experience: It is not easy to make so many people agree on a single point. In our trip also I tried same but one person looked angry in the complete trip. If I would have made that person happy, others 16 might have became angry, I think I made the right decision. In my thinking the whole trip was good, I learnt a lot of things in the trip, and have made a few conclusions, first understand the mentality of each and every person going with you and if your thinking matches with them, then only go with them or else make yourself adjustable or well you know this option.

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OOty- The Queen of Hill Stations

Rose Garden

 There are many names of a single place, rather say one of the best in South. I visited Ooty to celebrate Gandhiji's birthday. Actually 17 friends visited there and had an awesome day. The planning was done in an hour only. I came home after having dinner and asked everyone who wants to join the trip. In starting 19 trainees got ready to go and we hired a cab, just after the cab deal was final, 2 trainees quitted. Well I had this in mind that's why I was taking more money from all. Just as our plan was in process, one more group plan was already set. They were taking very less than what I was collecting I justified them by saying that "I am collecting high charges because there are hidden charges in their trip such as entry and parking, I after trip some money is left Ill return you.". They said "OK, but some charge still needs reduction". Finally we all agreed on terms and conditions. I must say it is a bit difficult to make 17 people agree on same conditions because each and everyone have different taste such as some wants to cover as much as spot as he can, while other wants to be back on time, no matter how many spots are covered, while others wants to have girls no matter how much time it take or how less spots are covered. As the planner I had to take decisions which most of the people wants. Although they were hard decisions, but someone has to take the hard path.

At the Lake

We reached Ooty and everyone started making their demands such as one said "Hurry we should cover  as many spots as we can", while another said "Call the other group, just check where are they". I said will hurry and will check that is there any possibility to sych our cabs. But soon, it became clear that, if we are going to synch the cabs following problems will be there: will be late, less no of spots will be covered and some people might become uncomfortable. So we hurried and tried to complete all spots and we succeeded too.

Our first spot was the Rose garden. The name itself says that it was full of different types of Roses. Wherever your eyes can see, only roses were there, it was a marvelous view. After Rose Garden we reached Lake. Lake had the facility of boating, we hired a paddle boat, it was a cool experience, as the boat never go straight, no matter however you keep the lever. It was always going round or left or right, but never straight. I must say it was fun.

well there are three more points left, I'll write about them in the next post.

In Boat with a friend