If winter comes……..

Winter is still sitting pretty on this hill station……….Ooty, as it is known. The Sky is spotlessly clean and the sun is on the rampage but there is an invisible tormentor who forces you to wear your warm clothes and the woolen caps.

But people here cannot wait till the winter packs off. Ooty needs a face-lift before the arrival of summer. At the race course, the workers are busy putting up temporary stables for the race horses. Women folks are taking care of the grass tracks.

The rose garden is getting the bridal attention. By April, it will be roses, roses all the way. The Botanical garden, the queen of gardens is getting the royal treatment. The big event is the annual flower show but if you really want to enjoy the serene atmosphere in the garden, it will be better if you go there a couple of weeks before the flower show.

Then you have the Boat House, Deer park and Dodda Betta, the highest peak in South India.

All said and done, the natives will feel the pinch of the purse during summer when the prices of all items will touch new heights.

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