{"id":1108,"date":"2015-05-05T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T05:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2018-02-23T07:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T01:59:52","slug":"ooty-heritage-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/ooty-heritage-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ooty Heritage Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following heritage trail has been compiled by Mrs. Geetha Srinivasan, convener, INTACH (Nilgiris Chapter). Mrs. Srinivasan is also a nature conservationist, a wild life activist and President of Nilgiris Wild Life & Environment Association, Ooty.<\/strong><\/em> Lord Lytton, Governor General of India visited the Nilgiris in September 1877, and wrote the following lines to his wife Lady Lytton.<\/p>\n The morning was fine and for the first time I have seen Ootacamund. Having seen it I affirm it to be a Paradise, and declare without hesitation that in every particulars it far surpasses all that its most enthusiastic admirers and lovers have said to us about it. The afternoon was rainy and the road muddy, but such beautiful English rains, such delicious English mud. Imagine Hertfordshire Lanes, Devonshire Downs, Westmoreland Lakes and Lusitanian views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This paradise which Lord Lytton saw in the nineteenth century is destroyed in many ways, the Downs for instance have been covered with Wattle and Eucalyptus and landscape changed in many ways, but a large slice of the British Raj, the Architectural Heritage still remains. So travel down the Heritage Trail and discover the magic of “Snooty Ooty”, when it was truly the Queen of Hill Stations.<\/p>\n
\n Since this information was compiled a few years ago, some of the details may have changed; the history however, has not.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n