While there are numerous things to do in Ooty and Coonoor, a ride on the toy train to and from Ooty must top the list. Toy train rides are perhaps the most exciting things to do when visiting Indian ...

History begins with a road in the planters’ town of Coonoor in the Nilgiris. The Ghat Road, which connected the railhead at Mettupalayam with Udhagamandalam (Ooty), passed through what was then no ...

Hidden in plain sight, under a mound of excavated sand dumped unceremoniously on top of it, is a unique rock which serves as a reminder to those looking out for Coonoor’s disappearing colonial legacy.

Though the stretch from Ooty to Mettupalayam is most popular, the route taken by the Nilgiri toy train from Coonoor to Mettupalayam will suffice to sample the experience.