The Blue Train Kandy to Ella

Today is all about the Blue Train. We have to leave at 7am to get to Kandy by 10am to meet the man for the tickets. The train is due to leave at 11am and it is a 7 hour journey. We paid USD143 for tickets that should cost about USD20 but Dad didn’t want to take any chances in missing this once in a lifetime!

Before we leave we have to return the volleyball to our new friends from Canada. Mum wrote a note so we could swap WhatsApp numbers. We wanted to get the contact for the Kerala houseboat but also we thought it might be great to swap travel stories 😊

We made it to Kandy station with 30 minutes to spare. We had Second class reserved tickets and seeing the mass pile up in third class and the race for seats in second class unreserved we were very happy with our choice! The Blue Train is of course Red today though! Ah well, we won’t be able to create that iconic picture quite so perfectly but I am sure it will be fine!

Gosh what an epic journey it was. We had rain and wind and sun and mist it was cold it was hot it was windows up it was windows down! The scenery was incredible - tea plantations, jungle, waterfalls and villages. We did manage to get some photos hanging out of the train which is the
epic shot. We had thought that we would be going over the 9 arch bridge but no that is on another line just after Ella, we will go and visit it tomorrow.Read more