"Only Nothing" break at Destiny Farm

Oh what fun it is to watch the candy floss clouds sail across green rolling hills…..

It is like the beginning of any holiday planning. Let us go to a place where we can do nothing. Let us just be and leave behind everything for a while. As it then turns out, as soon as we reach a place I am the one scanning what to do next. What are the many sights around, must see places and lo the holiday is over. On the way back it is the same story, the next trip we will make sure it will be all about nothing….

Honeymooning couples, large families with kids all over, a lake, one suicide point and a sunset point, it was these cliché that kept us from not looking at Ooty as a destination to go. But then, hills have a strange way of calling you back, and, the Western Ghats are no exception. So Ooty it was for our Only Nothing trip.

Ooty was a tad disappointing. It is massively crowded, narrow lanes and traffic that makes it even more worse. The weather however, was brilliant. It was touching 10 C at night. It is a different experience to have a fireplace lit in your room. The wood burning slowly, warming up the room and the smell of wood..wow..thats the stuff the I have read in books.



We stayed at Destiny Farm. This is about 28 kms outside of Ooty towards Avalanche. This is where our Only Nothing trip seemed like becoming a reality. You drive the last 500 meters in an army truck. Once you are there, you are just immersed in the beauty of the location and the work that has gone into building the farm. 140 acres of farm nestled between the reservoirs of the Avalanche dam and the Emerald dam.  Potatoes, Letuce, Cabbage, Tea grown on the rolling hills are a sight straight out of book. They have a cattle farm, 25 odd cows, there are about 10 horses running around. No TV, internet and handsets become mere paper weights. It takes us back to a time when things were done I am not sure how, anymore. We spent our time just walking around, a lot of time was spent looking at the clouds sail across the skies. It took a while to muster enough courage to get on a horse for ride. Such beautiful creatures they are.One of them is actually called Destiny.

Actual view out of our window

Just like the many people who have visited the place before us, on the way back during the bumpy ride in the military truck I too made up my mind to set up a farm one day, someday… But one thing became certain to me, that doing nothing is not impossible and it can be great fun too.