Ella, Sri Lanka

Unable to secure a train to Ella , we resorted to our driver that we used before.  We stopped at a Hindu temple as well as another tea plantation/factory.

A  view of Ella Gap from our room. The drive here with a stop at  a Hindu Temple took about  6 hours for only about 95 km.  The roads were extremely narrow and twisty as we got into the mountains and so the driving was a bit slow.  But it was much more comfortable than our local bus ride that we took from Polonaruwa to Kandy that took 4.5 hours in an overcrowded ride.  The rains continue for a few breaks and so we cancelled our hike this morning since the hillsides are very slippery.