Ella Rock

Climb up to the sky and stand suspended over the white clouds enjoying the beauty of scenic Sri Lankan highlands. Regarded as the world’s best walk, Ella Rock is a superb hiking spot in Ella with stunning views of magnificently vegetated hillsides. The trekking trail of Ella Rock is quite interesting with its challenging existence and unmatched scenery. Ella is a beautiful highland town in the south of Sri Lanka and is the proper destination If you are into the hillside beauty of the country. The train journey from Ella to Kandy is considered to be the best train experience in the world.

Although a year-round travel destination, the best time to explore the Ella Rock and Ella region shall be months from March through June when Ella experiences quite a pleasing summer weather with sunny days and no rain. The winter season also, months from December through February would be perfect for non-tiring hiking and roaming in this hillside region. Visiting during two monsoons is not recommended since going out would not be nice and the trekking trails shall be muddy and full of leeches.

After getting to Ella the four to five hours strenuous journey begins at Ella town where you head to the train station and start walking left and end of the platform start walking on the railway.
don’t worry about the signs everyone does it including locals so no one’s going to stop you. However, note that from time to time trains come along this railway so if one approaches stay out of the railway. After walking around 40 minutes you will arrive at the “Kithalella railway station”,walk past the station for another 5-10 minutes lookout at a rock marked with a blue arrow saying “Ella rock”.

Follow the path and cross the footbridge, after it you will come to a fork in the route. Take the left path .Stay on the path into the tea plantation there will be long grass on both sides, soon after the long grass the trail will open up veer right this will take you to the interim point.

From there it’s straightforward and steep path to the top of Ella rock. On the top you will get the breathtaking view from Ella rock and surely you will forget all the sweat you shed to climb the rock to get the view.