The Avid Travelers

Everlasting flowers
For a South Indian, Everlasting flowers invariably means nostalgic memories of visit to Ooty or Kodaikanal. No one returns without buying a bunch of them.
Ladies selling white and yellow colored paper daisies are seen everywhere in these hill stations, most of them grown in their tiny cottages. It is the livelihood of many families....

Little did we know about these places when we visited Kodaikanal. It was a bright sunny day and the sun too strong for mist or fog to appear in the background.
Our first visit was to the Pillar rocks, 8 kms from Kodai Lake.
Three boulders standing tall in the midst of breathtaking greenery....

So 2010 Tiger statistics in India were in news last week. Some people are pointing to figures and beaming that the Indian Tiger population has come up(from 1411 to 1706). Skeptics believe that the rise in figures is apparent since the latest count has...

Where do you plan to go during this summer vacation? Of course The answer is "somewhere cool"! In the scorching summer heat, Kodaikanal turns out to be one of the most sought out tourist location in South India.
In Kodai the most beautiful attraction is invariably the Kodai lake itself....