To Nuwara Eliya
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Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 18 Mar 2019 23:47
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To Nuwara
Eliya
   We bimbled from our
digs to the train station, had to stop for these
lovelies..........
 .............. and ten minutes later
stood waiting for the 9:23 to Nuwara Eliya. Our train
coming in.
 The painted
sign told us we had a 64 kilometre journey with an average speed of
twenty five mph.
  We pulled away on the dot of 9:23,
passed Ella valley and on to vegetable plots.
 The prettiest cabbage patch we have ever seen complete with lily
pond.
  At our first stop we watched as a
pile of rocks were hand-smashed
by a patient man into the gravel you see around sleepers.
  Several miles of small allotments and
fields of vegetables.
 Approaching
Bandarawela.
   A parked travelling van, a resting girl
and the station name in
flowers.
 We rose in altitude and passed many
villages and small towns.
  Terraces
and mountain backdrops.
  Great to watch the train
as we went over bridges and round sweeping
bends.
   Slowly the steeper
valleys gave way to terraces............
 .........and we saw more tea bushes.
 Even
higher.
    We stopped at our highest station –
Pattipota.
  Neat vegetable
drills and terraces.
 Then nothing but tea bushes, these
being tended to by ladies.
   Neat rows
from years of tending........
We began our journey at Ella station
at a height of 1041.46 metres. Highest point called Summit Level was at 1898.10
metres. Pattipota Station was the highest at
1897.56 metres and arriving at Nanu Oya (Nuwara Eliya) station which is at
1613.1 metres.
ALL IN ALL VERDANT, LUSH. GREEN AND
PRETTY
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY FROM AN AMAZING
HEIGHT |