Hatton is the gateway to the most celebrated accommodation experience in the Sri Lankan highlands – the Ceylon Tea Trails bungalows, a collection of restored colonial planter’s bungalows set among the estates of the Bogawantalawa and Dimbula valleys. Even without staying in them, the drive through the Hatton tea country is among the most beautiful in the highlands – the Castlereagh and Maussawa reservoirs sit between the estates like mirrors, and the roads pass through plantation landscapes of extraordinary visual refinement. Adam’s Peak, the island’s most significant pilgrimage mountain, is also reached from here.