Coonoor - Day 3

Well, considering we pretty much stayed put at Sans Souci, the rest of Coonoor was from vantage points at Sans Souci, or long walks from Sans Souci.

This was one of our favorite vantage points. Not even a tree to obstruct view of the deep valley with its never ending sloping tea gardens, and acrross the valley, the nilgiri ranges with their scattered villages. The villages were like a star sprangled sky at night. The viewer up and the viewed below.....both very pretty

This was a picture from a walk recommended by Shibani, and Diksha's capture of a bird in flight just made the picture that much more beautiful

The neighboring 'nonsuch' tea estate with an interesting but too daunting a walk up. The estates seem to have some interesting names, huh? 

Dusk in the mountains..it's always too clouded for clear sunsets, but that doesn't take away the beauty of dusks. 

We luckily caught one clear night, when we shut of all the lights in the house to see a star studded sky. It was thrilling, but also scary as its a kind of pitch dark we don't even know in the city.

I'm sure there's a pretty bird on one of those branches. I kept taking pictures of these really cute birds, but they're so well camouflaged into the green, that I mostly can't even find them in the pictures.

Those rows you see on the mountain slope on the left are the tea workers houses

There's tea picking going on there, but again a camera on your cell as against a DSLR will bring you only so much. I was asking Diksha how a trip like this would be with a DSLR, and her response 'it would be only about the DSLR, don't even think about one ma'

This one's from way within the porch, nice ready made frame it gave. And I must mention, that evening on the porch we saw the largest spider we've ever ever seen, big as a saucer, way bigger than anything we've ever seen on even national geographic. Alwyn, who did the brave job of getting rid of it, said it was poisonous to boot.

Dawn .......

Well, neither inside nor outside....or shall we just say both. One of Diksha's candid pictures, she will mostly neither take, or allow taken, a posed for picture. Has it's own charm (though at times, annoying too), and guess we survived quite well for it.

Didn't take the laptop, but then...where I go, my diary goes :)