Raju's Wanderings

Kandy is one of the major cities enroute to Colombo from Nuwara Eliya and lies in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It was the capital of Sri Lanka prior to Colombo. The city of Kandy seen from Bhairavakonda Vihara. We reached Kandy early in the morning at 4 AM. Our hostel turned down our late reservation made at 11 PM the previous night, and we kept looking around for a place to sleep for a few hours till 5:30 AM.  The reason we need a few hours of sleep was that we had spent the previous night sitting in a very fast bus from Ella, being buffetted from side to side in the hilly ghat section, braced against handles, seats, continuously operating thigh and leg muscles, unable to sleep a wink!    Krishna Dosai in Kandy is a great place to have breakfast, with a familiar South Indian dosa, idli, upma and wada. Kandy City House where we stayed. It is a very cheap hostel, while clean enough. It was quite hot because there was no ceiling fan. A very ti...

Ella is a quaint hill station in Sri Lanka and in the tea growing region around Nuwara Eliya. We reached Ella at night on March 6. We set out to trek Little Adam's Peak early the next morning at 4:30 a.m. to catch sunrise on the peak. Little Adam's Peak at Sunrise  A view of the Milky way just before Sunrise.  The sleepy town of Ella with the pre-dawn light filtering through.  Litte Adam's Peak as the sun rises. Let sleeping dogs lie. I don't know why dogs tend to accompany humans along any trek to the hills. To me, they seem to give a sense of comfort and guide people along the trail for no known reason other than the companionship.  A view from Little Adam's Peak. The colors of dawn from Little Adam's Peak.  Nine arch bridge constructed in the British colonial era in 1921 between two mountains in Ella. The 300 feet long bridge is still operational, and the train to Baidulla passes along this route.  I just h...