We took a marvelous train ride from Perideniya Junction near Kandy to Ella. The track winds through Sri Lanka's "Hill Country" where mountains rise as high as 8300 feet, twice as high as Vermont's Green Mountains. This is the area of tea plantations. Sri lanka is one of the world's leading growers and exporters of tea. The railway is a marvel of British engineering as it winds along steep mountainsides and through approximately 40 tunnels. While the equipment is old the views are often spectacular.