Hatton & Castlereagh
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 […]
Haputale
Haputale is a ridgetop town that sits on the southern edge of the highland plateau – a narrow settlement balancing between two dramatically different landscapes, with the flat southern plains stretching to the coast on one side and the tea-covered slopes of the highlands rising on the other. Lipton’s Seat, the viewpoint above the town […]
Horton Plains
The Horton Plains plateau sits above 2,000 metres and is one of the most unusual natural environments in Sri Lanka – a windswept landscape of open montane grassland and cloud forest that feels more like highland Scotland than tropical Asia. The walk to World’s End, the sheer cliff edge where the plateau drops nearly 900 […]
Nuwara Eliya
Often called ‘Little England’ for its Tudor-style buildings, rose gardens, and improbable thoroughbred racecourse – Nuwara Eliya sits at nearly 2,000 metres and carries a peculiarly colonial highland atmosphere that makes it feel unlike anywhere else in Sri Lanka or South Asia. The surrounding tea estates are extraordinarily beautiful, Gregory Lake provides a pleasant afternoon […]
Ella
Ella is the hill country village that everyone who visits Sri Lanka ends up talking about. It has exactly the right combination of a dramatic natural setting, walkable hiking trails, a relaxed cafe scene, and the photogenic Nine Arch Bridge nearby – where the colonial-era hill country train crosses a nine-span viaduct of brick and […]