Ohiya

After another beautiful train ride from Nuwara Eliya to Ohiya, we arrived in the middle of nowhere. Ohiya can be used as a base to go to the Horton Planes National Park and to do some pretty lovely hikes - of course we did both, and we will have to create separate posts for both due to the mass of photos we took of the incredible Sri Lankan landscape ❤️
As mentioned, Ohiya has a train station but you could hardly call it a village - we would guess max. 20 houses in total? (And all of them double-functioning as homes and guesthouses). Our guesthouse was of the same like, so we were living together with an older couple, their son and his pregnant wife for our stay. Electricity was not always available, neither was hot water (a pity, because it was almost as cold as in Nuwara Eliya), and our host mom cooked exclusively over fire. Let us tell you that every rice & curry variation our host mom and her daughter-in-law cooked were fantastic!! And beyond plenty, but by now we are almost used to being served twice as much as we are physically able to eat and still being asked if it’s really enough 😉
With nothing else to do nearby, and with our excursions being finished earlier in the day than planned, we spent plenty of time in the beautiful garden of our guesthouse, drinking homemade black tea and reading books. Not a bad life indeed 🤷🏻‍♀️Read more