The Train Ride

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I am going to be there from December 24th to January 3rd with my wife and two kids (7 and 3 years old). In a month I will spend 11 days in this lovely country, that has been on my bucket list for a long time. Nuwara Eliya and Hortons Plain are packed with tourists and it is pretty expensive to go to Hortons Plain (you have to pay entrance ticket). Nuwara Eliya is pretty cold, with temperatures below zero during the night, so bring warm clothes if you are going to Nuwara Eliya. As per man in seat 61 there is third party agent where you book your train tickets in Sri Lanka before you get there.

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Kandy offers a wide selection of accommodation for all budgets, and here you will have plenty of choices when it comes to finding the right place to stay.

We took the train from Ella to Peradeniya train station, and then a 15 minutes tuk-tuk drive into Kandy city. Invite your children to talk about, retell and sequence the lovely children’s story ‘The Train Ride’ using these colourful story sequencing cards. They might enjoy accompanying the rhythm of the words using a percussion instrument or improvising with a shaker made from a plastic bottle and dried beans. It’s the perfect way to extend your learners’ vocabulary, and reinforce the spelling of tricky words. So you will actually take the train from Peradeniya train station (Kandy) to Nanuoya train station (Nuwara Eliya).

The Train Ride Story Sack (teacher made) - Twinkl The Train Ride Story Sack (teacher made) - Twinkl

The stops were only short ones though, where sellers of food and drinks came onboard selling stuff to us passengers, before stepping off at the next stop.The ride shows you a rarely-seen version of Hawaii, filled with old sisal plantations and ghost towns. All passengers receive a hot chocolate drink, and freshly baked cookie along with the coveted silver sleigh bell – the first gift of Christmas. I just stayed there for one night after hiking under the rain to the Little Adam’s peak and it was such a bliss….