Ella in 4 days

A 91-metre, 24-metre-high viaduct of stone, brick and cement on the Badulla line; local lore says its steel went to the First World War.

A 1,141-metre summit reached in about thirty minutes from the Passara road, up a path and steps through the tea bushes.

A cliff 300 metres above the village, reached by following the railway, then climbing steeply through eucalyptus and tea to views over Ella Gap.

A 25-metre waterfall by the Wellawaya road, 6 km from the village, named after the king who hid Sita in the Ramayana.

A 1921 spiral where the line loops right round and passes through a tunnel directly beneath Demodara station to lose height gently.

A working factory above Ella; the tour follows the whole process, from withering and rolling to oxidation, drying and grading.

A 1,970-metre viewpoint above Haputale where Thomas Lipton surveyed his estates, reached by a narrow road up from Dambatenne factory.

Sri Lanka's second-highest waterfall, a 220-metre drop about forty kilometres south of Ella; an hour's steep path leads to rock pools at the top.