Home Made Chocolates from Ooty

Home Made Chocolates from Ooty

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If you happen to be holidaying at Ooty, the Queen of hill stations in the Nilgiris, then do remember to pick up the home made chocolates that is extremely famous here. 

There are quite a few shops that promise you the taste of Ooty’s home made chocolates, but if you want to savour the authentic stuff, then do drop by King Star, the folks who started the home made chocolates business here in Ooty. 

King Star is located on Commercial road that is situated close to the Charing Cross, the bustling heart of this hill station. There are quite a few shops that have the King Star brand and all these shops are managed by the same family. 

King Star has a great assortment of home made chocolates that include rum n raisin, fruit n nut, roasted almonds, fig n honey, milk chocolate, coffee chocolate, dark chocolate varieties, sugar free varieties and others. They also stack a great set of fudges that include chocolate, pista, almond and others. The chocolate prices vary from 350 to 500 rupees per kilogram for the normal chocolate varieties and range from 750 to 850 rupees for the sugar free varieties. 

The Tea Factory

There are several small tea factories which cater the life of the people and provide livelihood to a wide number of people earning their bread from the meager income they avail by working in tea factory. 

Tea factories are well equipped and produce tea of different qualities and focus on a large international market. The whole process of manufacturing the tea is well optimized and is highly grounded up with well planned process so as to produce highly edible and good quality tea to be sold in the market place. 

The taste of the fresh, just made tea is so fine that one should taste it once to have that essence of freshness. It would surely be a wonderful experience.

Doddabetta Peak 

The Doddabetta Peak stands at an altitude of 2,623 meters. It is the highest point in the district, making it possibly the best vantage point around Ooty. It is merely 10kms from Ooty so you can simply grab your camera and head straight to the peak, and click amazing pictures of the valley below. On a clear day, which is honestly not that often, one can see far off areas, even the plains of Coimbatore and the flat highlands of Mysore.

Rose Garden

Rose Park is situated in the heart of Ooty town and it is located less than a km from Charring Cross at Vijayanagaram, the rose garden is laid on 10 acres of land. This garden has been beautifully laid out in terraces with rose tunnels, pergolas and bowers with rose creepers.

Ooty Lake 

From just behind the central Bus Stand (also near the Railway station) the famous Ooty Lake stretches, in an irregular 'L' shape, for about 2.75 kms in length and varying distances in width(100m – 140m). For the curious, this lake was artificially formed by John Sullivan, the founder of Ooty, in 1823-25 by damming the mountain streams flowing down Ooty valley

Botanical Garden 

Botanical Garden is one of the best tourist attraction places which attract the tourist from all over the world. This garden was laid out in 1847 by the Marquis of Tweedale and is spread over 22 hectares ascending the slopes on the hill at an elevation of 2,400 meters above Main Sea Level. An explicit collection of flowering tress, beautiful shrubs, and rare colored lilies are seen.