The train from Kandy to Ella through the tea country is rated among the world’s most beautiful rail journeys, and the rating holds. The line winds over stone viaducts above jungle gorges, along cliff edges with valley floors hundreds of metres below, and through tea estates so close to the track you can smell the leaf through the open window. Venture Ceylon arranges reserved window seating, briefs you on the best viewing positions, and treats the journey as the experience it is, not a transfer between two stops.