


Plus, the hiking in the nearby hills is incredible. Welcome to Ella – a backpacker hangout in the middle of the mountains where you can satiate your desire for Western food pizzas, burgers, pastas, panini’s, fruit shakes – and get beer more easily here than anywhere else in Sri Lanka’s ‘Up Country’.įor those who have travelled in northern Thailand, Ella’s chilled mountain vibe may remind you a little of Pai, complete with the Rastafarian-wannabe tuk-tuk drivers.Īlthough hardcore backpackers may wince a little at the modernisation taking place in the tiny ‘city’ of Ella (and we hope it doesn’t go too far), at the moment, it’s a good place to indulge in a little of those comforts you may have missed in more traditional parts of Sri Lanka and India.
