Getting to Nine Arch Bridge
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 17 Mar 2019 23:47
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En Route to Nine Arch Bridge,
Demodara near Ella, Sri Lanka
  We left the tea
plantation at Little Adam’s Peak, walked down to the main road, turned
right, bimbled up a steep hill and turned left at a pretty little shrine.
   Down the track from the shrine a
couple of flowers and a lake.
  Up again and looking over the next bit which includes the track in the
far distance. At the top of the next hill we found a posh hotel and went in for a cold drink.
  From the hotel balcony we could see
our target way below. As I sipped my chocolate
milkshake, another first, a lady was pressing towels
behind me in the restaurant of said posh hotel......
   Along a path, down a track and a cheeky
beast of a hill.
  Nothing too amazing about this little
juice stall until we looked back
at it from down the next down bit.
  Spot the house on
the hill, then in close up.
  Loved the pretend
grass of a tuktuk we passed, how it got there ??? The
next bit.
  Are we any closer
yet ???? Errrr no.
 Favourite tuck
shop, there is actually a man serving in there.
   Even the bravest
tuktuk men have to give up now and wait. Bear shows the way and looking
back up at the next bit.
   The next
chunk.
 Delighted my flip flops are holding to
their 4x4 reputation and YAY the bridge is getting
closer.
  Someone has thoughtfully used tyres to help. Oooo that’s
steep.
 Not a bit sorry that trek is over and
we finally reach the bridge. We don’t have to go back
that way, we can walk along the track, it’s only a mile and a half back to
Ella. Wish I’d have known that and done exactly that both ways. Even
if you sponsored me a lot of money would I have gone back that way. I would
happily have walked to the next village and caught the dodgiest of
buses.
ALL IN ALL WHAT A TRAMP MOUNTAINEERING AT ITS BEST..... |