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Podi Menike: Sri Lanka’s Hill Country by Train

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Reserve a first-class seat in the Podi Menike train’s observation car and sit back to marvel at mountains, forests… and landslides, says Peter MacNeil
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but for independent travellers on the Indian sub-continent, foresight is even better. Start taking anti-malaria tablets weeks before you leave. Once on the move, phone ahead to [...]

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Rail connections to India

Monday, May 12th, 2008

 
There was a rail link to India until 1964, with services from Madras to Colombo (the Indo-Ceylon Express). From Madras Egmore passengers took the Rameshwaram Exp. (then known as the “Boat Mail”).
The MG track went through Pamban and reached a pier at Dhanushkodi, the southern tip of the island of Rameshwaram and about 27km from [...]

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