nilgiris summer festival

Udhagamandalam braces for significant traffic changes starting May 1, 2026, to manage Ooty summer festival crowds. Tourist vehicles from Mettupalayam will be rerouted, and specific routes are designated for buses and cabs heading to Gudalur. Temporary parking hubs are established, and heavy commercial vehicles face entry restrictions daily.

No final decision has been taken on permitting helicopter tourism in the Nilgiris as part of the summer festival, the Tamil Nadu government informed the Madras high court on Thursday.

The Chief minister, J Jayalalithaa is likely to inaugurate the 116th Annual Flower Carnival at the Government Botanical Garden in Ooty.

The summer festival in Nilgiris came to a close on Saturday with the tourists being treated to boat races at Ooty Lake. As the model code of conduct was in place almost throughout the month of May, the tourists this time around were not offered as much entertainment as in the past years.

The 'Pethakal Summer Festival' got off to a rousing start on Wednesday at the JJ Heritage Park located in 'Pethakal' next to the Sullivan Memorial in Kannerimukku village near Kotagiri.

Environmentalists have written to state authorities to regulate the crowd during the festival at the Maasi temple located in the heart of the reserve forest in the Nilgiris in western Tamil Nadu.

With the summer festivities due to begin in the Nilgiris, police have declared the ghat roads leading to the plains one way as part of traffic regulations.

Unmindful of the global pandemic and the lockdown, the Government Botanical Garden (GBG) and the Government Rose Garden (GRG) in Ooty are in full bloom.

Using over 2,000 kg of vegetables of different varieties for carvings of different shapes, the 8th annual vegetable show was inaugurated at the Nehru Park in Kotagiri in the Nilgiris, as part of Annual Summer Festivities-2015, on Saturday.