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30.01. Kandy – Nuwara Eliya
This is our fifth day in Sri Lanka and we’re starting to love the public transport as well as we can speak some words in Singhalese. But first we had a great breakfast on our veranda at the Villa Shenandoah. Even if it was a little bit windy and cold, we enjoyed our fruit platter and toast. After trying some new packing methods we were ready to leave this beautiful place to catch the bus to Nureliya in Kandy downtown. Our driver brought us to the right bus (an intercity bus/van with AC). We got in, the co-driver put our bags in the front, and had a seat at a window. We were there at 9:30AM and the bus should leave the station at 10:00AM. While we waited, lots of street sellers came into the bus, showed us fresh pineapples or water and filled the bus with intensive smelling. The last one had some fresh fried fish samosa with loads of recently sliced onions and chilli. What a flavour 9:30AM!
Our driver was a really passionate business man, so he tried to convince us to buy four tickets, two for us and two for our bag packs. Motivated by the smell, we carried our bag packs for 2,5hours on our laps while our driver filled the van with so many people that there was no aisle left.
When we arrived at the bus station in Nureliya, the diver of our hotel was already waiting for us. With the Tuktuk we drove 15min up the hillside, crossing a golf court and some Guesthouses in colonial style and came to our hotel called “Spring Garden”. As described in the internet, the hotel had a nice garden with a badminton court, at the one side, they had planted some vegetables (which are growing here very easily). We got the room called “Eagles Nest”, which was the room under the roof with an own balcony and a panoramic view over the city centre and vegetable fields.
Unfortunately, the famous tea plantations were around the next hills, so we weren’t able to see them.
The room was definitely out fashioned, especially the bathroom with flamingo coloured walls and furniture from the 50th was very special.
After we had settled down in our “Eagles Nest”, the owner organized a Tuktuk to bring us to some tea plantations where we were hoping to find see some pickers at work. We were lucky and had the chance to meet some of the pickers and make some photos. We learned, that only women are picking the tea and that they are working 6 days a week. Only on Sundays the pickers have the day off.
On our way back to town, we saw a SOS-Children Village, which consisted of several newly built huts and some vegetable fields.
Back at the hotel we tried to find an accommodation in Ella, which we were planning to visit next.
Accidentally we met a Singhalese tourist guide, who recommended us Haputhale as an alternative station to Ella.
So we arranged a sleep-over in home stay in this town, which is surrounded by tea plantations and not as crowded by tourists as Ella.
After we hang out in front of the chimney, we went to bed early.