tour around
Follow us on our trip in 2014 ...
01 Colombo Airport - Pinnawela - Dambulla
Day 1 Colombo Airport - Pinnawela - Dambulla
From the airport over Pinnawela to the "Cultural Triangle"
We went from the Colombo Airport to Pinnawela directly. Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage was the only stop on this day our round trip. For the next three nights we stayed in the town Dambulla in the Hotel "Nice Place".
02 Dambulla - Polonnaruwa - Sigiriya - Dambulla
Day 2 Dambulla - Polonnaruwa - Sigiriya - Dambulla
On the way in the "Cultural Triangle": From the second oldest kings's town to the Sigiriya-Rock
03 Dambulla - Anuradhapura - Mihintale - Aukana - Dambulla
Day 3 Dambulla - Anuradhapura - Mihintale - Aukana
04 Dambulla - Matale - Kandy
Day 4 Dambulla - Matale - Kandy
05 Kandy - Gampola - Ramboda Falls
Day 5 Kandy - Gampola - Ramboda Falls
06 Ramboda Falls - Horton Plains - Nuwara Eliya - Ramboda Falls
Day 6 Ramboda Falls - Horton Plains - Nuwara Eliya
07 Ramboda Falls - Hatton/Dikoya - Dalhousie
Day 7 Ramboda Falls - Hatton/Dikoya - Dalhousie
08 Dalhousie - by train Nanu Oya - Badulla - Ella
Day 8 by train from Nanu Oya to Badulla - Ella
Fascinated and tired - we slept after climbing Adam's Peak at night most of the trip to Nanu Oya. But then the train to Badulla let us be wide awake again. By car we drove to our accommodation "Mount Heaven" on the outskirts of Ella.