On the 7-hour journey from Kandy to Badulla, the train ride between Nuwara Eliya and Kandy or Ella is one of the world’s most picturesque broad-gauge routes. The iconic blue train takes you past rolling rice fields, lush tea estates, villages, giant mountains, colonial-era viaducts looming over the forests, crossed bridges with eerily huge drop-offs, and cascading waterfalls. One-way tickets cost only LKR 260 per adult.