Nuwara Eliya

After Kandy we went down to Nuware Eliya. We went there to see Ramboda Falls, which is a waterfall if the name didn't give it away.

I didn't really think too much about what we were doing. When I put my flip flops on that morning I clearly didn't factor in the possibility of maybe having to do a bit of climbing to see these waterfalls. Judging by Lee's footwear he obviously made the same school boy error.

We'd driven past it on the bus on the way into Nuwara Eliya and we didn't realise that was just a small section of it. When we got there we noticed a small opening to the side of the waterfall which looked like a pathway. There were a few rocks that had been fashioned into steps and we soon gathered that you could climb to the top. The weather was nice, the pathway didn't look too baron, so off we went.

After about 15 minutes in, the place was like a jungle. The path was covered in vines and plants and other green shit, at times the path disappeared and we had to climb across rocks hoping it was the right way. I was fully expecting to come face to face with a jaguar or something equally as mean. I kept my thoughts to myself so as not to scare Lee, and right at that moment he goes,
"There's definitely going to be animals in here, look at it! We should go back. There's going to be snakes".
I agreed but I didn't want to tell him that because I didn't want to turn back, so I told him to stop being a pussy and we carried on. Over an hour later of full on climbing we finally reached the top. To say we were sweating would be the understatement of the century.
It was worth it though the view was beautiful.

By this point I had to lose the flip flops, they kept skidding off my feet in crazy directions and Lee kept shouting at me for spazzing about like it was intentional. To my absolute delight the same thing happened to him on the way back down. His flip flops proper twined him. The way he ended up was hilarious, I nearly pee'd. He wouldn't let me take a picture the tit. By the time I'd composed myself enough to get the camera out he'd already straightened himself out. It's a shame 'cause it was one of them photo's I could have just sat and laughed at for ages. Cracking up now just typing about it.

Before the descent, we climbed down (or skidded down bare foot if you're me. I'm so going to get hook worm) to a pool at the bottom of the top part of the waterfall for a jump in and a swim. To get there you had to climb over a load of massive rocks. Had to do all the obligatory moves pretending to be Lara Croft haha (You'd have done it too!). The water was so nice and clear, freezing cold like. Hello fanny ache and ball ache!

On our way back to the side of the waterfall to get down again, I was doin' me Lara Croft moves trying to get over a rock and I slipped and mangled my leg. I was stuck. I couldn't help myself for laughing which made me more stuck. Lee didn't help, he videoed me. On the video my leg looks like it's broken. Don't know how it's not to be honest, it looks like it shouldn't be in that position. It was funny though, I didn't hurt myself so all is good.

The climb down was harder than that of coming up. Also by this point the heavens had opened. I tried the flip flops again, but if I thought they were slippy before then I had another thing coming. Off they came again. It was so steep coming down. I went first and Lee kept shouting at me for going slow and he kept going ahead demonstrating how to do it. (This was about the time his flip flops went on a mad one. Brillaint). You'd have thought he'd have been more concerned about me falling off the edge, but no, he was in a rush to get down to the bottom to get out the rain, despite already being wet from the swim, despite having reached the bottom we were only to stand and wait in the rain for a bus anyway.

Nuwara Eliya is nick named 'Little England', because English colonialists came here. I on the other hand think it's more to do with the amount of piss heads on the street downing their bottles of Arrack, the many alcohol shops, and the pubs seem ten a penny too. Oh and the climate. It lashed down, and it got really cold here too, about 17 degrees? Sounds nice, but we've had 36 plus the last week or so, so this feels cold now.

We arrived in Ella today. Going to climb Ella Rock tomorrow, it's about 9km in total. I can categorically say that I shall not be branding my flip flops tomorrow, Vans all the way, baby!