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Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor
A vaccine institute on sixteen acres above the town, founded after Lily Pakenham Walsh died of hydrophobia in 1902 without reaching treatment in time. One lakh rupees of Henry Phipps's gift to Lord Curzon paid for it, Coonoor was chosen for its cool and equitable climate, and it began work on 6 April 1907. It has made antirabies vaccine ever since and DPT vaccines since 1982. A manufacturer, not a clinic.
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Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor
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Typeheritage
Nearest baseCoonoor
DistrictThe Nilgiris
Best timeOctober to March is the cooler, drier…
Time neededAbout an hour
Places to visit16→Listed businesses14→Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor is planned from Coonoor, one of the travel bases in The Nilgiris district. Use Coonoor for stays, food and local transport, then plan this place as a focused stop.
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- Base yourself in Coonoor or nearby in The Nilgiris, then confirm the last-mile route locally before travel.
- If access depends on temple, museum or seasonal rules, check on the day before you go.
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Best time
October to March is the cooler, drier season in the Cauvery delta.
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Heritage hotel
Neemrana's Wallwood GardenA nineteenth-century Scottish-style house on Kotagiri Road, run by Neemrana. It keeps its own award-winning gardens and a tea estate.
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Heritage hotel
Ibex Resorts, Coonoor (Leewood)A colonial bungalow of 113 years on the Leewood Estate at Highfield. Five grades of room, and lawns used for weddings.
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Boutique hotel
180° McIverThree grades of room in the old McIver Villa on Orange Grove Road. The view runs right across the Coonoor valley.
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Plantation homestay
Tenerife HillA two-bedroom farmstay inside a working tea estate. The kitchen cooks Badaga food, which few places serve visitors.
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Plantation bungalow
The Sanctuary at Paradise HillA two-suite plantation bungalow on Paradise Hill, closed in by hills on three sides. Meals and guided estate walks come with it.
Chocolate shop and cafe
Moddy'sA chocolate counter, gelato bar and bakery on Church Road at Bedford. The chocolate is couverture, made with cocoa butter rather than refined oil.
Tea factory and shop
Highfield Tea FactoryA working tea factory on Walker Hill Road that walks visitors through the process. Entry is ₹30, or ₹100 with a tasting.
Tea tasting
Tranquilitea Gourmet Tea TastingA ninety-minute sit-down tasting of Nilgiri teas at Grays Hill. Two sittings a day, by reservation only.
Resort
Ibex Resorts, Coonoor (Tapas)The smaller of the two Ibex houses at Coonoor, out at Burliar. Three mountain-view rooms with private sit-outs, and a restaurant called Sparrow.
Guest house
Fairy GlenA two-bedroom colonial cottage on Hatherly Road, let as a whole house. Meals are cooked to order with a day’s notice.
Guest house
Erin VillaA house of more than 150 years on six acres, two kilometres out of town. Let by the room or as a whole cottage.
Members club
Coonoor ClubThe town’s club since 1885, with heritage guest suites looking onto the garden. A dining room, a bar, tennis, and a library of 3,000 books.
Cafe
Third Wave Coffee, CoonoorThe chain’s Coonoor cafe, on Figure of Eight Road beside UPASI. Open nine in the morning to ten at night, every day.
Beauty salon
Pachu MehendiBeauty salon. A6, Thilaga Nagar, Devaiyampalayam, Periyanaickenpalayam, 641020.
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activityNilgiri Mountain Railway
1.6 km · 20 min walk
A UNESCO World Heritage metre-gauge rack railway connecting Mettupalayam to Ooty via Coonoor, opened in stages between 1899 and 1908.
parkSim's Park
190 m · 2 min walk
A 12-hectare botanical park in Coonoor established in 1874, laid out in irregular Japanese style with a small lake and rare tree species.
viewpointDolphin's Nose, Coonoor
A rocky outcrop near Coonoor offering sweeping views of the Nilgiri escarpment, Catherine Falls, and the plains below.
viewpointLamb's Rock
A viewpoint near Coonoor overlooking tea and coffee plantations and the Coimbatore plains, named after a former collector of the region.
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Droog Fort
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heritageDroog Fort
Droog Fort sits at about 6,000 feet on a hilltop roughly 13 km from Coonoor and is reached by a trek through tea estates and shola. It is said to have been used as an outpost by Tipu Sultan in the 18th century, with surviving remnants including a wall and a clock tower. The summit gives sweeping views over the plains and hills.
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Law's Falls
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heritageLaw's Falls
1.2 km · 15 min walk
Law's Falls lies about 5 km from Coonoor on the Coonoor-Mettupalayam ghat road, where the Coonoor river drops through a wooded gorge. It is named after Colonel Law, who built the Coonoor ghat road in the 1830s. Surrounded by dense greenery, it is a relatively uncrowded picnic spot.
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Ralliah Dam
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heritageRalliah Dam
Ralliah (Rallia) Dam sits on the Coonoor-Kattabettu-Kotagiri road and was built in 1914 as a catchment supplying drinking water to Coonoor and Kotagiri. Ringed by eucalyptus forest and reached by a short walk, it is a peaceful, little-visited spot popular for gentle trekking.
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Lady Canning's Seat
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heritageLady Canning's Seat
650 m · 8 min walk
Lady Canning's Seat is an elevated colonial-era vantage point near Coonoor named after the wife of Lord Canning, Viceroy of India. It is prized for its sunrise and sunset views over the surrounding valleys and tea slopes.
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Kattery Park
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heritageKattery Park
Kattery Park is a horticultural park spread over about 5.5 acres near Coonoor, with landscaped flower beds, a children's play area and a small waterfall on the Kallar river nearby. It is a compact garden stop on the outskirts of the town.
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All Saints Church, Coonoor
Place
heritageAll Saints Church, Coonoor
1.0 km · 13 min walk
An Anglican church in Coonoor, now of the Church of South India, on the Kattabettu road out of the town — stained glass, antique woodwork and an old pipe organ in a Gothic hall. Its founding is published as both 1851 and 1854 and we have found no official source that settles it, so both are printed. We have no checked coordinate for it, so no distance to it is printed.
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Coonoor railway station
Place
heritageCoonoor railway station
1.6 km · 20 min walk
The hinge of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, 370 m from the Coonoor bus stand. The Abt rack section that carries the train up the gorge from Kallar ends at this platform and the run on to Udhagamandalam above it is worked on plain track, which is why the locomotive shed is here and why the Coonoor-Ooty shuttles exist. Southern Railway gives the whole line as 45.88 km of metre gauge, opened to Coonoor on 15 June 1899.
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Brooklane Coonoor Tea Factory
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heritageBrooklane Coonoor Tea Factory
A working tea factory 9.5 km east of the Coonoor bus stand on the estate road toward the viewpoints, where the leaf from the surrounding slopes is withered, rolled, oxidised and graded. Coonoor has been the administrative centre of the Nilgiri tea trade since the first plantation in these hills was established beside it in 1854.
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Katary Falls
Place
waterfallKatary Falls
A waterfall 11.5 km west of Coonoor below the Katary dams, on a different catchment from the Ralliah dam east of the town despite the similar name - a confusion that had put Ralliah's own pin ten kilometres out until it was corrected. Reached off the Coonoor-Ooty road and far less visited than Catherine Falls.
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Bedford, Coonoor
Place
heritageBedford, Coonoor
650 m · 8 min walk
The junction a kilometre above the bus stand where the town's shops give out and the estate roads begin, and the second place in Coonoor to find an auto. The tea slopes above it run up to Highfield, and the road east from here is the one that leads to Lamb's Rock and Dolphin's Nose.
heritageHighfield Tea Estate and Factory
1.0 km · 12 min walk
Highfield is a long-established tea estate and working factory near Coonoor that offers guided tours explaining the tea-making process from plucking to packaging. Visitors can walk the plantation slopes and buy estate-fresh Nilgiri tea, making it one of Coonoor's popular tea-tourism stops.
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parkSim's Park
A 12-hectare botanical park in Coonoor established in 1874, laid out in irregular Japanese style with a small lake and rare tree species.
190 m · 2 min walk · straight lineL
Lady Canning's Seat
Place
heritageLady Canning's Seat
Lady Canning's Seat is an elevated colonial-era vantage point near Coonoor named after the wife of Lord Canning, Viceroy of India. It is prized for its sunrise and sunset views over the surrounding valleys and tea slopes.
650 m · 8 min walk · straight lineB
Bedford, Coonoor
Place
heritageBedford, Coonoor
The junction a kilometre above the bus stand where the town's shops give out and the estate roads begin, and the second place in Coonoor to find an auto. The tea slopes above it run up to Highfield, and the road east from here is the one that leads to Lamb's Rock and Dolphin's Nose.
650 m · 8 min walk · straight lineheritageHighfield Tea Estate and Factory
Highfield is a long-established tea estate and working factory near Coonoor that offers guided tours explaining the tea-making process from plucking to packaging. Visitors can walk the plantation slopes and buy estate-fresh Nilgiri tea, making it one of Coonoor's popular tea-tourism stops.
1.0 km · 12 min walk · straight line
heritageWellington Gymkhana Club
A garrison club that dates itself from the brick cricket pavilion put up for the troops in 1873, though it only took the name Wellington Gymkhana in 1916, and it now runs an eighteen-hole hill golf course at about six thousand feet. Its own history records a race course here before Ooty's longer track was built, nine-hole golf, polo and rugby by the 1930s, its first Indian member in 1943, and the fact that the whole club stands on military land and pays a yearly rent to the Defence Department.
1.0 km · 12 min walk · straight lineA
All Saints Church, Coonoor
Place
heritageAll Saints Church, Coonoor
An Anglican church in Coonoor, now of the Church of South India, on the Kattabettu road out of the town — stained glass, antique woodwork and an old pipe organ in a Gothic hall. Its founding is published as both 1851 and 1854 and we have found no official source that settles it, so both are printed. We have no checked coordinate for it, so no distance to it is printed.
1.0 km · 13 min walk · straight lineL
Law's Falls
Place
heritageLaw's Falls
Law's Falls lies about 5 km from Coonoor on the Coonoor-Mettupalayam ghat road, where the Coonoor river drops through a wooded gorge. It is named after Colonel Law, who built the Coonoor ghat road in the 1830s. Surrounded by dense greenery, it is a relatively uncrowded picnic spot.
1.2 km · 15 min walk · straight line
heritageMadras Regiment War Memorial
The memorial of the Madras Regiment, the oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army, raised in 1758 and at Wellington since February 1947. The Cantonment Board's own history places the Defence Services Staff College directly in front of it, which makes this small square the centre of military Wellington rather than the barracks themselves; the ground around it is cantonment land, and what you may photograph is decided at the gate, not by the memorial.
1.4 km · 18 min walk · straight lineactivityNilgiri Mountain Railway
A UNESCO World Heritage metre-gauge rack railway connecting Mettupalayam to Ooty via Coonoor, opened in stages between 1899 and 1908.
1.6 km · 20 min walk · straight lineC
Coonoor railway station
Place
heritageCoonoor railway station
The hinge of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, 370 m from the Coonoor bus stand. The Abt rack section that carries the train up the gorge from Kallar ends at this platform and the run on to Udhagamandalam above it is worked on plain track, which is why the locomotive shed is here and why the Coonoor-Ooty shuttles exist. Southern Railway gives the whole line as 45.88 km of metre gauge, opened to Coonoor on 15 June 1899.
1.6 km · 20 min walk · straight line
heritageWellington railway station
The cantonment's own halt on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, and the point every distance on the Wellington page is measured from, because the town has no bus stand at all. It sits above the rack: the toothed third rail that hauls the train up the gorge ends at Coonoor, so everything through this single platform runs on plain track, and the station opened in 1908 with the extension to Udhagamandalam rather than with the line itself in 1899 — the barracks below it were forty-eight years old before the train arrived.
1.6 km · 20 min walk · straight lineF
FM Manekshaw Bridge
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heritageFM Manekshaw Bridge
The bridge that separates the barracks from the bazaar, first thrown across the Mynala stream in 1878 as the Waterloo Bridge and known for a century as the Black Bridge because it was built of Burmese teak and painted black. It was rebuilt in March 2009 — forty-three and a half metres of it — and renamed for Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who died at the Military Hospital here on 27 June 2008.
2.3 km · 29 min walk · straight lineOn the map
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When is the best time to visit Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor?
October to March is the cooler, drier season in the Cauvery delta.
How do I reach Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor?
Base yourself in Coonoor or nearby in The Nilgiris, then confirm the last-mile route locally before travel. If access depends on temple, museum or seasonal rules, check on the day before you go.
How much time do I need for Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor?
About an hour.
What else is near Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor?
Nearby you can pair Sim's Park (190 m), Lady Canning's Seat (650 m), Bedford, Coonoor (650 m), Highfield Tea Estate and Factory (1.0 km).
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The story of All Saints Church, Coonoor
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