Choo-Choo!

Riding the rails in Sri Lanka can be quite an experience...but not necessarily a bad one.

I wanted to take the train so Rebecca and I took it from Kandy to Nanu Oya (closest stop to Nuwara Eliya). We left at 8:24am and arrived there at about 1:30pm. When we first got on the train it was standing room only. Oh joy. Not too bad though because there are handles for you to hold onto and it doesn't stop and start like the bus does.

We were also in the car that was down wind from the toilets:( Yuck!

A gentleman that was sitting with his daughter was kind and held her on his lap so that one of us could have a seat. We really appreciated that. Rebecca insisted that I sit, I think that she was having too much fun standing. She said it was the closest to surfing that she would ever get!

A few minutes later another guy got up and wedged a piece of cardboard into the washroom door so that it wouldn't keep swinging open and that solved that problem!

A little way down the track the man and his daughter got off and we were able to have both seats.

The reason that I wanted to take the train was because I wanted to see the view. It was so amazing. You can see so far and the view is very different from the view from the road. Along the road it's all about the shops. When you are riding the train you get to see the unadulterated view where life is simple and beautiful. Where the only sign of man is the tiered fields that look older than time itself. It makes you praise God for his wonderful and vast creation.