The next day was a bit of a mix up to start.

Our guide messed up and we ended up missing the classic train we were supposed to take to a cute backpacker hub on the souther edge of Sri Lanka’s Hill country.

We had to do a lot of waiting around, then sat in a stuffy train – BUT it had the most gorgeous views (and no that is certainly not me leaning out of a moving train like that!!)

When we arrived in Ella I could see why it is considered a tourist town – there were toursists everywhere! But I have to say the town was so so so cute.

I wished we had been here for 2 nights!

We walked around a bit and then went to a restaurant for a snack – and there on the menu was “Quebec poutine”. Of course, I could not resist.

And luckily I didn’t, bcs it was so good!

We had dinner that night and then chilled in our room that had incredible views.

The next day we had a fun day. We did a short hike to visit the iconic Nine Arches Bridge.

Then we did another hike to Little Adam’s peak.

I have to admit I was very hot and grumpy here too! We went back to the hotel to shower – and Rob took a little dip in the pool!

We had to take a little tuk tuk up and down to our hotel. Then we stopped at a beautiful waterfall…

We then drove to Yale National Park for another 4 our safari. I was pretty done by the end of it lol (FYI the comfort level of a safari in South Africa was quite different than here:)

The elephants are also much smaller – although that still did not stop one from charging the truck in front of us so we had to quickly back up!

When we finally got to the hotel (and our really nice room! – with the most unbelievably huge bathroom!!) I found a cute swing and curled up in it. We also took a nice swim in their beautiful pool before heading to another nice meal.