The train ride from Colombo up into the tea plantations of central Sri Lanka is not just transportation, it's a highlight of your visit. You can travel on one of two daily modern 'blue trains' or as shown here on a classic Sri Lankan train with a first class observation car attached to the rear. As you can see from the photos, this gives a wonderful rearward view along the tracks, so you can see how this wonderful railway was constructed, hugging the hillside under overhanging rocks. Nanuoya is the railhead for Nuwara Eliya, a colonial-era hill station where the British would take time off away from the heat and humidity of the coast, surrounded by more Ceylon tea plantations that you can shake a stick at...