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Ella

Hill Country

Ella

A gap in the mountains that frames the entire southern plains in mist and light.

Ella is perhaps Sri Lanka's most photographed village, its famous Rock Gap offering a framed view across the southern plains. The journey here on the Kandy–Badulla railway — crossing the Nine Arches Bridge through tea-draped hills — is one of the world's great train rides. Stay long enough and the pace of the mountains becomes your own.

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