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The plunging valleys, pancake-flat plains and palm-ringed beaches are all well and
good, but it can get mighty hot down there! India's princes and British colonials used the
country's mountain towns, such as Ooty (Udhagamandalam;
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, as cool refuges
from the relentless summer heat, and today the hill stations still have plenty of forests, crisp
mountain air and sprawling tea plantations. Curl up under a blanket with a steaming cup of
local tea, peer over the misty hills at the mountain birds swooping by and experience In-
dia's chilled-out side.
