Carry things when you don't need it 😏 and...

So white ❄️🌲❄️

Trail 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️, flow🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️ and feast 😋

They are having fun ☃️☃️

Let it snow ☃️

We started with a run before breakfast to Little Adam's peak ⛰️. Local peak where a lot of people from Ella go for sunrise 🌄, so we did not feel alone. 

On our way back we had breakfast in our favourite cafe (🌈☕️ Rainbow cafe) and we started our way towards Ella Rock ⛰️ as part of the stage 15. Again on tracks and then the trail up ⬆️.

The official trail is slightly different of what we did yesterday so it was good to have some alternatives to see new trails. On this area we met most of the people 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️. After that we saw only 3 hikers and locals in the whole day.

After some forest trails 🌳 and 9.5 kms after leavimg we arrived to Makulella which is the end of stage 15. There were some option to eat but we decided to keep going since we were still good.

The stahe 14 was a highlight 🌟, specilly towards the end. It has quite some elevation since on the direction we did it, it finishes around 1800m.

We arrived to the area of Lipton's seat and St. Catherine and that was a great place. Tea fields and vegetables 🥬🌱🍃 combined on a lively town where a lot of the people were in the fields.

St. Catherine was the end of the stage and looking at Google Maps 🗺 it looked only one place offered some accommodation and food. It is low season so they do not expect people. We could have arrived till the end but we had time to see if we could live the local experience 💭.

We movilized quite a part of the town 🏘. First we asked a man, then the man brought a very young kid and he spoke some English. The other man called "Susan" which looked the right person (this is the one I read in the reviews).

We entered the house 🏡 we knew they offered food and they offered tea, 2 women came but they did not speak much english but it seemed they understood. Then came "the father" and we could communicate something. 

We were offered tea 🍵 and cookies 🍪 and after a while came Susan. He spoke English very fast 😅 but was much easier to communicate. Food was on the way and would take about 45 min. It's more or less what it takes always since is always cooked at the moment is ordered.

It was great experience, great endless food on a local cousy house  🏡.  We talked a bit more with Susan which offered us a ride if we needed but we were happy to continue running 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️, specially after all that food 🍛.

With that we were ready to do the last stage which was the longest (14 kms) but mostly down and little elevation.

Landscape with the tea fields and mist 🌫 were incredible, another highlight stage. Some overgrown trail 🌾🌿 but they are part of the experience.

 At the end in our last days we found what we came for. It was a present 🎁 after the challenges that the country offered. 

The area we were today has been categorized now as a low risk 🟡 and we could see little signs of the heavy rain compared to what we saw on the first days.

#Route: Ella - ⛰️Little Adam's Peak - Rainbow cafe 🌈☕️- ⛰️Ella Rock - Makulella - St. Catherine 🍛 - Haputale

#👥with Pascal
#⛰️Little Adam's Peak: 1151m
#↔️Stage 15: Ella - Makulella
#⛰️Ella Rock: 1350m
#🌟↔️Stage 14: Makulella - St. Catherine
#🏡🍽Liptora
#🌟↔️Stage 13: St. Catherine - Haputale
#🔗https://thepekoetrail.org/
#🇱🇰Sri Lanka

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Carry things when you don't need it 😏 and...

So white ❄️🌲❄️

Trail 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️, flow🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️ and feast 😋

They are having fun ☃️☃️

Let it snow ☃️

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