Train Ridefrom Nuwaraeliya TO Ella
Tour Description
Catching the train to next stop in Sri Lanka, the small village of Ella was the most fun we've had in our travels in a long while. It's certainly up there with driving a campervan around parts of Australia, theme parks days, Halong Bay and the bamboo train in Cambodia.
The train takes three hours to go Nanu Oya, just outside Nuwara Eliya to Ella. In actual kilometers it's a pretty short journey but the train has to cross a lot of mountain ranges and descends from 1800m down to 1000m, passing through tea plantations, eucalyptus forests, mountains, villages and more tea plantations. Much of the track snakes it way along the edge of the mountains overlooking huge valleys of firstly tea plantations and small villages, then forests and waterfalls, before crossing to the other side of the range and being greeted with more valleys of tea plantations and small villages.
The scenery was stunning. What makes it even more amazing is the 4 hour journey
