Visit the Historic Boarding Schools of Ooty
As visitors to Ooty quickly realize, India’s first hill station is home to many 19th century schools. The founders of
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GHR Ooty 2017 Run T-shirt
The Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu happens to be one of India’s major tea producing regions and the tea grown here is known for its dark, aromatic fragrance. Incidentally, over 60% of the tea estate workers in the Nilgiris are women – and they served as inspiration for the Go Heritage Run – Ooty T-shirt design. The T-shirt illustration shows a woman hand plucking leaves in the lush green tea estates with the rolling Nilgiris in the background – a typical Ooty scene! Not-so-typical in that Ooty scene, but represented in the illustration anyway, is a set of intrepid heritage runners making their way across the hills. The T-shirt is a fluorescent green – matching the lustrous tea leaves shimmering in the morning sun.
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Destination Ooty: pictures that will tempt you to travel
If you love hill stations, you have probably been to Ooty. If you haven’t, here are some photos which will inspire you to take that trip to the Nilgiri Hills.
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GHR Ooty Run Report 2016
Runners make their way downhill through a series of tree-lined curves and switchbacks on the trail and are then, without warning, presented with quite the sensory assault – the heady aroma of eucalyptus and a clearing leading to a green meadow stretching as far as the eye can see.
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GHR Ooty 2016 Finishers Medal – Nilgiri Railway
The Go Heritage Run Ooty finisher medal is a quaint steam engine intricately laser cut in wood. It is not just a medal, it’s a souvenir too!
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GHR Ooty 2016 Run T-shirt
A lot of thought goes into your t-shirt design at Go Heritage Runs. For the run in Ooty, the trees, tea and the Nilgiri Mountain Railway line influenced our design process.
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Two Wonderful Days at a Heritage Run in Ooty
We all jogged to the start point of the 15 Kms marathon. There were children running for 5 km. As I ran, I was lost in the scenic beauty of Ooty, says Kiran about his run at GHR Ooty in 2015.
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My First Run: Go Heritage Run in Ooty
This was not my first trip to Ooty, but definitely my first run! Says Shanteri, who also lived her childhood fantasy of living in a boarding school.
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Go Heritage Run – Ooty: Hotel Recommendations
Taking a vacation in Ooty with friends or family? Here are a few recommended hotels, divided based on price ranges. Rates vary during tourist season and off season.
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The Assembly Rooms: Ooty’s Oldest Entertainment
The Old Assembly Rooms in Ooty has a century old legacy of entertaining people. It is the only movie hall in India that has the Governor as a Patron and the District Collector as its President. Perhaps sneak in a movie when you are in Ooty for the GHR in May?
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