I ve been in Sr Lanka 5 times but was always with a private car & a driver…but surely I ll try the train with 2nd class seat next time, good advices, thanks guy! It s such a beautiful country & Sri Lankan people are very kind..!
@Tico MOLINARI - I did the same for far too much of my trip. The trains are so easy and incredibly cheap. So are the buses....but they're a little scarier. Could have saved myself a lot of money!
To add some more information about the trains from Kandy to Badulla, there are several trains that you can take. All these trains have 1st, 2nd and 3rd class compartments that can be reserved early. You can make a reservation using the train station booking counter or via a mobile phone using the Mobitel/dialog network. Recently the've introduced online booking as well but not sure if that's fully operational yet. Train 1 - departs from Kandy - 3:35 AM Train 2 - departs from Kandy - 7:00 AM (Elle Odecee tourist train 1st and 2nd class only - limited stops + short stops at multiple attractions ) Train 3 - departs form Kandy - 8:46 AM (Podi manike express train from Colombo) Train 4 - departs form Kandy - 11:03 AM (Udarata manike express train from Colombo) Train 5 - departs from PERADENIYA (15 mins away from Kandy) - 12:30 PM (consisting of an Observation saloon at the end of the train - ideal for panoramic views)
@Lankan Aussie - thanks for the additional information, super useful. Although are you sure they all have different cabins? The train we got from Hatton to Kandy only had a single class?
@@WiththeSparrows all the blue and red power set trains (reaching hatton at 11:23 & 13:19) definitely has 1st 2nd & 3rd class reserved seats and 2nd and 3rd class unreserved carriages as well. Train reaching Hatton at 14:36 which is a locomotive driven one only has a first class observation saloon as a reserved seats compartment and other carriages are 2nd and 3rd class unreserved once. The new train Ella Odessey which reaches Hatton at 9:14 is a completely reserved seats compartments train consisting of 1st and 2nd class only. use this website - eservices.railway.gov.lk/schedule/searchTrain.action?lang=en to get up to date train schedules of Sri Lankan Railways
@@sanathkt4 that's strange because we couldn't reserve seats on the train from Hatton. Maybe they were sold out by the time we arrived (it was so busy we had to sit with our legs out the door for 3 hours). Thanks for the link!
Colombo - Batticaloa. Colombo - Jaffna. Colombo- Ella. Colombo - Trincomale are some of the best rail journeys in the country that takes you to some of the exotic destinations in the country. Rail journey alone is worth it.
