Jan 182009
In November my sister visited Sri Lanka, so we grabbed some friends, packed up the car and headed back to our favorite lakeside cabin, the Castlereigh Family Cottages in the hill country. You can see our previous adventures here. This time we decided to go on a hike rather than spend our time on the porch the whole time.
Rather than go on an established hike, we decided to pick a mountain and climb it ourselves. We chose this mountain across lake where we could use the tea trails to reach the top.
We drove around the lake and parked in front of a Hindu temple.
I guess this is the way. This would not be the only time we asked the locals for help.
The tea trails.
Two tea pickers on their way to work. The long sticks are laid across the tea bushes. Only the leaves above the sticks are picked to make sure the leaves are young and fresh.
As we wound our way up the mountain the lake began to reveal itself.
Life in the fields.
On the way up the mountain we met a group of women hiking to the nearest town, Maskeliya, to go shopping. They walk the whole way and the trip takes them four hours.
Our cabin is across the lake.
A group of children out for a walk with their parent’s helped point us onto the correct path. Kay fit right in with them.
After a two hour hike we made it to the top.
Adam’s Peak in the distance.
Our friend called his driver and made sure we had cold beers waiting for us at the end of the hike.
Resting sore feet and soaking up the views.
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