A tear in the Indian Ocean (No. 7) Nuwara Eliya Mountain Train.
Tang Bangming.
Nuwara Eliya is located in the mountains, 180 kilometers away from Colombo, located in the central mountains of Sri Lanka, the temperature is 4-16 all year round, it is the summer resort of Sri Lanka, she is known as the garden city of Asia, famous for its hills, canyons and waterfalls, surrounded by mountains, rich in plants, elegant environment, during the British colonial period, many British people lived here, there is"Little London"The title.
This mountain train is similar to the subway. The difference is that the subway mostly runs underground, while the small train in Nuwara Eliya shuttles through the mountains and tea plantations every day
In China, we say that Yunnan is eighteen strange, and trains are not as fast as cars. In Sri Lanka, too, trains can't outrun cars. I can't believe that this is a tourist project, which makes me feel like I am back in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century.
It's not a stunt, it's a real photo shoot for me. After the train was moving, there was no need to close the door, and after the train started, this local guy grabbed the handrails with both hands, took off into the air, and hung out of the car, his courage was no less than that of the railway guerrillas.
It's so magical, how proud, and we feel that it's not a train, it's a ...... of our own feelings.
These old, slow, rickety old-fashioned trains seem to be almost relic. The small train is not long, at most.
Seven or eight carriages.
Train fares are very cheap, and the seats resemble the benches of old domestic trains. The train station is very simple, there are not many passengers coming and going, and everything on the platform is relatively old.
Sri Lankan trains are a bit like the kind of green cars in the seventies and eighties of the last century, except that they drive"Red car", the carriage is a little shorter. You must take a shot when you get on the train**, and your body can stick out of the window at will.
I wandered back in time to the mid-twentieth century. At that time, I was a soldier in Yunnan and went home every year to visit my relatives, isn't that ......