GK
NICKNAMES OF PLACES AND RIVERS
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Tenali
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Bardoli
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Bhuvaneshwar
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Yercaud (Tamil Nadu)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Popular as the “Poor man’s Ooty”. Yercaud is one of the low cost hill station destination in India. Ph No. 04281-222126.
Detailed explanation-2: -Yercaud is often called Poor Man’s Ooty. A scaled-down, less commercialized, less congested version of the popular hill town. The nickname might sound demeaning, but I’ve been told that Yercaud is what Ooty used to be a few decades back.
Detailed explanation-3: -Notes: Sakleshpur is known as the Poor Man’s Ooty in Karnataka. It is a hill station town and headquarters of Sakleshpur taluk in Hassan district in Karnataka.
Detailed explanation-4: -A beautiful hill station near Salem, Tamil Nadu in the Servarayan range, this town is popularly known as the “poor man’s ooty.” Yercaud is awash in natural beauty and its name comes from “yeri” meaning lake and “kaadu” meaning forest.