SEP 30, 22 .. (5/5) BACK IN TIME WE GO TO APRIL OF 2013 .. TO REVISIT OOTY, A CITY IN TAMIL NADU, SOUTH INDIA

This post is the 5th and last post in our series of Ooty posts. This post will show you the beautiful Tea Plantations near Coonoor that I visited while visiting Ooty.

The below 'smattering of photos' will give you a preview of what you will see, if you choose to click onto the link at the bottom of this post which will take you my post dated APR 24, 13.

I was on a tour and below is a photo of my tour bus.

Into each life some rain must fall!

The Monsoon Rains in India can be sudden and very intense!

A few Tea Plantation photos to (I hope) whet your appetite to see more if you click onto the link below.

Below is the link that will take you to a longer post showing additional photos I snapped on my Tea Plantation tour that I visited while in the Ooty area.

http://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2013/04/apr-24-13-visit-to-tea-plantation-in.html

This will conclude our five posts re-visiting Ooty and Coonoor in Southern India. We enjoyed our re-vist and hope some of you also found them of interest.

Cap and Patti

MAY 22, 13 .. HAVE FAITH ..

I have a lot of photos I want to post from Hong Kong. HAVE FAITH that I will actually get them uploaded here onto Blogspot using Patti's computer here in Anchorage and the system for photo-uploading Patti's computer utilizes that I will have to learn.  

Today I did a post over at Dot Net in case you are interested.

Smiles .. Cap

IF you really HAVE FAITH .. do NOT stop here .. but keep scrolling down.  I pulled the below Tea Plantation photos up from my Blogspot photo history. This was A FIRST for me!  Now I must see IF I can upload photos from my camera into Patti's computer THEN get them onto Blogspot here .. 

Tea Plantations in Southern India .. weren't they something!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR FAITH IN ME !  Now please 'scroll-down' to the below Post!

MAY 5, 13 .. THE ROAD LEAVING MUNNAR ..

Last night .. as I left Munnar at 4PM .. I could NOT stop .. I could NOT resist .. snapping more EVER MORE photos. Sad-to-say .. I  may never be back to Munnar.

Here we go!

The High-Mist of the Mountains .. the Green of the Tea Plantations .. it all mesmerizes me .. it all hypnotizes me .. what more can I say except to again say .. this may have been my only visit and I wanted to get all I could in the way of photos.

Much Joy .. Cap ..

MAY 4, 13 .. MUNNAR AND TEA PLANTATIONS ..

Just-in-case I failed to mention it .. Munnar is surrounded by Tea Plantations.

I think that I shall never see.. A poem lovely as a tree!  I think that I shall never see anything more beautiful than tea plantations!

What can I add to the below photos?

Many smiles .. and Love .. Cap

WHAT!  I think that I shall never see.. A poem lovely as a tree.  I think that I shall never see a more beautiful thing than a herd-of-goats.  And silly you!  You ask me why I love India!

Patti 99501 .. in the next post below I have included a poem by Joyce Kilmer for you to read .. so 'scroll down' to it!  Love .. Cap

APR 24, 13 .. A VISIT TO A TEA PLANTATION IN COONOOR ..

Coonoor is a small city of 50,000 people located barely 12-miles South of Ooty.  The principle industry in Coonoor is tea. I had heard of Coonoor prior to coming to Ooty and I ALMOST made Coonoor my destination and not Ooty because 'word-on-the-street' amongst the backpackers is that Coonoor is smaller than Ooty and not so urban and commercial.

When I heard of a local 'day-tour' from Ooty to Coonoor I 'jumped-at-the-opportunity' to visit Coonoor!

I knew I was on an Indian Tour Bus when we immediately pulled into a petrol station to fill-up!  Why don't they just fill-up before they pickup the passengers?

Our tour bus was very nice.

We had 'just a little rain' during our tour!

Luckily .. 'when the rain came' .. we were all inside under-cover.  As I snapped the below photo .. I 'felt a rain-drop' and then instantly a TORRENT of rain fell for about 15-minutes with no let-up.

I never knew!  I had NO idea!  That I was about to meet my long-lost Indian family from Bangalore!

When my seat-mate on the tour bus .. the below precocious 13-year-old young man .. found out that I could actually speak and write five words of Hindi!  I was adopted on-the-spot!  He was not in the above photo since he had-to-assist me to snap it!

And some of you actually wonder .. "Cap! What is it you so LOVE about India!"

Now my 'disclaimer':  I humbly apologize to any of you who get bored and sick-and-tired of the Tea Plantation photographs I am now going to post.  I was so mesmerized and fascinated and 'taken-over' by the calm magic and mystery of the tea plantation that I simply could NOT stop snapping photos.  For one thing .. green is my favorite color.  You will see tea plantations are green!

I don't think I need to say much.  Here we go.

It was a dark and a misty day at the tea plantation ..

  

The below rock formation fascinated me.

I have heard that some of the tea plantations actually offer guest accommodations for visitors. Can you imagine .. sitting in your room looking-out-over the above tea fields!

I will sign off as a VERY CALM .. Cap