Sri Lanka. the Mountains. Waterfall. Service Station

A stay in Ceylon and firsthand not see tea plantations would be quite wrong. So one day we went to the mountains. Somewhere halfway, mountain serpentines hit our car broke down and she shamelessly. Before us is a nasty little looming prospects foot descent down the search and repairmen. However, it did not have to go down — magically at 300 meters from us was station. Imagine — in the mountains — and the station.

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Stations very compactly situated on the edge of the curb.

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Standing on a concrete supports, without disturbing traffic and maneuvers:

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Small family ґesheft. Powered father and son. Judging by the number of vehicles, the place in the mountains elected fairly well:

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Here follows a tuk-tuk from the inside:

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The work is not easy, but a landscape of the "window" you will not find in any business center:

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Perhaps that is why the bulk of the working time is for contemplation of the landscape:

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And the local elite country house:

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In the mountains often break and buses.

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Prices for services we pleased — all repairs took 2-3 hours and for this we paid about $5. Therefore, in Sri Lanka the main thing — to save money on transportation and serviced no problems.

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Another break in the way to Kandy, we stopped the middle of a field that was not easy, and reserved during archaeological excavations. They say there naychervonisha land in Asia.

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A sign warns inveterate thieves and people who do not respect the old, expects a prison sentence and poverty:

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The land here is really very red:

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Incidentally, the ancient Greek name of Sri Lanka — Taprobanum, which means "copper-red earth."

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One enterprising grandmother, not bothering canons of modern marketing, for over 30 years selling his secret drink here:

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We are fortunate in the field was almost no queue and we ordered a refreshing drink:

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Only three ingredients — sugar (about 50% of the drink), water (45 percent) and the third part of a mysterious grandmother refused to disclose:

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Many rivers and mountains in Sri Lanka contribute to the formation of waterfalls of the island — more than a hundred. But the most famous waterfalls cascade is a way of Nuwara Eliya to Kandy:

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In the area of ​​about 50 square meters. km heap are just seven large waterfalls. All 50 km we certainly did not pass, but the 220-meter waterfall Diyaluma examined with great pleasure:

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For some exotic attraction, and someone — bathroom:

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Well, we are heading for conductor zabyrayemosya higher into the mountains, so the next issue — straight from the mountain of Sri Lanka.

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