We had a day full of sitting in a car today, driving out to Nuwara Eliya, through beautiful scenery of tea plantations in Hill Country.
We had the same private driver (that drove us here from the south) pick us up around 8am. It was about a 90 minute drive to Glenloch Tea Factory, the tea plantation that our B&B had recommended. Got the standard tourist tour, which was similar to what we saw in Malaysia, except there was more production going on. There weren't any tea leaf pickers on the estate so had the driver stop along the rest of the way whenever I saw some pickers.
The hill country was beautiful to drive through. I suppose the train ride is equally great.
It rained on-and-off after we visited the tea plantation, but we were in the car so it didn't matter. Stopped briefly in Nuwara Eliya, and at a Bhuddist temple that was closed between puja, otherwise a rather sedentary day.
We had dinner at the B&B. Went up (the house was on a hillside, with the entrance at the top level, and the other floors descending below into the valley) for a drink around 7pm. Patrick was pouring Johnnie Walker Black Label scotch, "cause it was Christmas".
Dinner was excellent, Sri Lankan, with rice and curry and vegetable dishes. Best was the dessert, curds and treacle, but this was the kind of curd you'd get from an organic curd specialty store. And treacle is always good. Mmm.
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