A room with a view

Ella   

M woke early at 6am to hike to Little Adam's Peak, and had the top to himself for a while. 

Breakfast was served on our cute veranda looking over the jungle at 9am. The last few steps to get to our hut are huge and uneven, so without hand rails it makes it a little treacherous to get to but the view from our bed is wonderful.

Sam collected us at 11am to drive us to the start of the 20 minute walk to the famous Ella Nine Arch Bridge. The walk was pretty easy and when we arrived there were lots of tourists hanging around on either side of the railway track as it goes over the bridge, and also in the nearby tunnel. We'd only been there a short while when we could hear the toot of a train horn, everyone scrambled off the tracks and on to the side and we watched people on the train hanging off the side to get their own perfect instagram shot.

We were almost at the van when it started raining, and as it grew heavier we pulled the pin on any further sightseeing and asked Sam to drop us back in town. Ella was originally just a small railway town in the mountains, but in the last 10 years it has exploded with a growth in tourism to the area, and now looks like it was built for the tourist trade, and quite similar in many ways to places like Bali, 

After a nice lunch and a wander up and down along the small main street we walked back to our villa just before some really heavy rain started. Dinner was at the same place we had lunch, seeing as we had enjoyed it so much.