Our stay in Ooty

Today we continued onwards to Ooty, one of the most famous hill stations in India. Netsi and I have been there almost 10 years back and - man Ooty has changed. Once a quite and easy going resort it has become a bubbleng and crowded city. There is now an amusement park on the lake and lots of people.
We just stayed a few hours. Since we had promised the kids a horse ride we used he time to do this. Netsi organized it but just before we went she said Thomas you have to accompany the children and so pretty quickly I was on a horseback as well - my first time!. In the beginning they took as through the city, in between honking buses and three wheelers and I just prayed the horses would be used to all the noise. But later we got in a forrest and quite area, and there it was really beautiful. We went for more than a hour, so it was our first horse trekking. As a treat we then had lunch in the guesthouse of the Firnhill palace, the palace itself is meanwhile renovated and so luxerious, you are not even allowed to enter if you are not a guest. So we had lunch at the guesthouse, where Netsi and I had stayed (and frozen) 10 years ago. Meanwhile this place is pretty randown, so we were happy not to stay there for the night. From there we went down to Mudumali National Park where we wanted to spent the night. Kubendran our driver took us down the old road, with 35 hairpin curves. The ladies in the back were quite sewating and happy when we arrvied at the bottom of the mountains