On the Way to Columbo...

On March 14th Rebecca, Micah and I left Nuwara Eliya to go to Columbo to pick up Jackie, a friend of Rebecca and Matt's who was coming to visit. On our way down we stopped for tea at St. Claire's. It is a tea plantation with a gift shop and small restaurant. We had stopped for tea but discovered that they served ice cream with fresh strawberries!! So of course we had to have some. Berries are not common in Sri Lanka so every chance that Rebecca gets to have them she takes it. Berries are her favorite fruit. There are also two waterfalls right by the St. Claire's tea shop. The picture below is of Devon Falls. The other one is called St. Claire's Falls. My picture of that waterfall didn't turn out...sorry folks.

Outside the tea shop there was this huge kettle type thingy. I'm not sure what it was used for in the past but it was cool and huge so I took a picture...(after some nudging from Rebecca).



Both Rebecca and I started feeling a little woozy on our trip down to Columbo so we stopped at a hotel (restaurant) to get some fresh are and to walk around. At the back of the restaurant there was a balcony and this is the view we had from there.



As you drive down the mountain the foilage gets more tropical as do the temperatures. We don't have any palm trees to speak of in Nuwara Eliya. It's too cold for them.

This is the hotel that we stay at when we come to pick someone up or drop someone off at the airport. It's called the Tamarind Tree.



The hotel rooms are like houses.


the pool


Jackfruit tree at our hotel. The fruit are the green blobs hanging off the tree. Jackfruit grows off the trunk of the tree not off the branches. They are green, prickly and huge.


some more scenery from the hotel

After we picked Jackie up from the airport the next day we headed back to Nuwara Eliya but we made a stop on the way to Pinnawala.