Ella, Sri Lanka - Home

Peaceful
By the time we reached Ella it was dusk.  Our AirBnB host sent a Tuk Tuk to the train station to fetch us.  We drove down the main drag, perched on the peak of a mountain and not more than a half-mile long and then began a long plunge into an adjacent valley.  As usual, Dodo had booked us a stay in the boonies.  Our AirBnB was a small house built along a roaring river.  This is the view from our balcony.  After we dropped off our luggage, we climbed back up to town on foot for dinner.  It was close to a mile each way and probably a thousand feet of elevation change.

The location of our house reminded me of a stop we made in Nepal, next to a river.  All you hear is the roar of the water passing by on its way to lower elevations.

Breakfast was included.  Every day, our host's mom got up before dawn and made everything from scratch, even the bread.   Fruits, chapati, tea, and some kind of main course.  The yellow rolls in the middle of the table were filled with fresh coconut.

My personal favorite was something called a "hopper" which is a thin pancake shaped like a bowl with an over easy egg nesting in the bottom.  I was later able to find this in Singapore - it's a dish that originated in southern India.

After our first breakfast we checked the sky.  The rainy season was not quite in full swing but the clouds were on the way in.