Tea, Tea, ........TEA!!!!!!
Nuwara Eliya is the tea capital of Sri Lanka, so its an important agricultural, commercial and also tourist area.
The scenery is fab - especially if you're into tea covered hillsides.
The road is crap - a 4 hour bone shaker from Kandy, although its only 80 kms. A chinese company are busy putting in a new one, which has presented a bit of an engineering challenge, on account of the existing very narrow road is about as wide as it can be, and also cause the road rises 1400 metres, mainly in the last 40 kms.
This tunel will be 200 metres long.
Here's the team: Take it easy boys!
I've got a bit of a fetish for subcontinental advertising and signage. Here are some snaps I took on the way:
Let's see........4 vitamins- 4 weeks......That makes sense, right?
A popular bleach for ladies: Being pale is apparently the way to go on the subcontinent! The papers all have marriage proposal sections and being fair is a valuable commodity. A typical ad might start - 22 year old, very fair, MBBS (Harvard), generous dowry...........
A timely warning against slovenly housekeeping!
Victoria Gardens - Nuwara Eliya.
They take their horticulture very, very seriiously in Sri Lanka
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