Toda Temple - Hindu temple in Ooty - The Nilgiris, India

Nice place nestled admist nature's bounty. Scenic and quiet place with undulating meadows. Toda Temple of the community is there. One can see from outside, entry not permitted. It's far-off from main stream, so you must plan only if you have time.

Must visit. Has thousand of years history. Some of the tribal people still live there and its a small trek from Botanical garden ooty. This temple has its own significance. People worship their god and they don't allow to enter. But the people are too good. Do visit here if you are in ooty.

It was definitely something that is never seen before. Amazing as it looks, we were told that it was created by panch pandav. It was a temple indeed but there were no idol inside. Also, this is not seperately located. We had to visit botanical garden to see this. Its at the top level of botanical garden. To see this, it wont be possible to go with children or elders as it takes quite mucj effort to reach the top level.

They don't allow anyone here.. If at all you guys have a chance to visit , Plz respect their space and place , Do not litter or Damage the property ..

It's a good place we can find real thoda people living there on the top small hills, however the old thoda huts are now not in use, but we can still find those huts which are now built in concrete for the tourists to know how it looks, when you climb a little you can find the thoda temple which is quite old and made up of wood. We are not allowed inside the temple and we are instructed to leave our slipper near the tree below the temple as Toda still considers the temple and the hill surrounding as a sacred place. There are three temples in total out of which the first temple is the biggest and looks really good.

Expectation was more than reality. What remains now is 2-3 Toda huts/temple which one cant even enter. Not receommended if you are visiting Ooty for 2-3 days. If you are staying longer , then you can visit this place.

Well, the directions to this places is not correct. We go into botanical Garden and you should go all the way up, at the end there is a gate, it might seem that there is no way but there is. So search for it and once you cross it there is the village. There were few kids, as we did not find the way we asked them, and they told us the way, but wanted some change or chocolate. So we gave them some but those kids were like not letting us get near the temple I mean not even close to it. They were shouting it's wrong and outsiders should not go near, so we did not get close to it. Still this place has a lot of history the one we see there is the smallest temple and seems like there is another temple in the woods which is the bigger one. Finding this place is really tough. We spent atleast an hour to find this.

It's have access from botanical garden .we spoke with one of the toda tribe he said that the temple was 4000 years back during mahabharth times Pandavas came here so they worship Pandavas there and on temple we have sun ,moon and buffalo.they worship God with only buffalo milk no others materials like lamp ,no match box allowed .on our side u can find chair type sitting arrangment with rocks on side wise of temple .he also said that toda tribe were only present in nilagiri hills only .