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Zip-lining in Ella and amazing views!

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 That's at Little Adam's peak in Ella. But before that about the trip: It was a two day trip. We left for Ella on Thursday around noon and about three hours later found ourselves in Mount heaven for lunch. They had heart shaped papadam. Is that a norm now?!  Papa had a conference in Badulla at 4 (the whole reason for the trip) so we gobbled up food and raced to the conference hall to find that we were earlier than everyone else even when we were late so that was fun. There was nothing for us to do so we climbed a roof (basically trespassing) and got caught by a nice person who let us off the hook. We hit the conference hall and half an hour later ate and headed back to the Ella gap panorama hotel to spend the night. After a hearty barbecue and figuring out how the hot water works, we watched Catch me if you can and three of us slept in two double beds. spacious yes.  Day two started with a beautiful sunrise view from the balcony and a coffee that needed a lot more sugar p...

A steep encounter: Uragala

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 Uragala is a very interesting and somewhat challenging climb. It is a range in the famous Hanthana mountain range and this was our first time going there now that the usual Hanthana route seemed somewhat familiar. The climb is really nice and I can say this because we couldn't even get to the top. Rain stopped us and made us choose the peak or our lives, and we as rational individuals chose the peak and then thought to give our lives another chance. Enjoy! We started off in two cars and went to Sarasavigama. After stopping at the Royal mall to... eat, we were off on our way again with Google maps helping us get to Sarasavigama. We then asked the directions to go to Katusu konda (which is also a range in Hanthana). We ended up in a questionable dirt road and made our way up and ended up at a hindu temple as we were told we would. We were advised to leave the cars there because apparently to ride further up we'd need a jeep. However the path after turned out to not be so challen...