Knuckles Mountain Range
The Knuckles Mountain Range is one of Sri Lanka’s most biodiverse and beautiful landscapes, protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Central Highlands. The range encompasses cloud forests, waterfalls, remote villages, ancient cave dwellings and a variety of endemic flora and fauna found nowhere else on earth. Hiking trails range from gentle half-day […]
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is a misty, flower-filled town that the British colonial planters styled after an English country village, earning it the nickname ‘Little England’. The town is surrounded by photogenic tea estates, with the famous Pedro and Mackwoods estates offering guided tours that bring the tea production process to life. Gregory Lake at the town’s […]
Horton Plains
Horton Plains National Park is a high-altitude plateau at 2,100 metres above sea level, cloaked in cloud forest, montane grassland and silent morning mist. The park’s signature walk leads to World’s End, a sheer escarpment that drops 870 metres in a near-vertical cliff, offering one of the most dramatic and disorienting viewpoints imaginable when the […]
Haputale
Haputale is a ridge-top town where clouds drift through the main street and the views from the escarpment are among the most spectacular in all of Sri Lanka. On a clear morning, you can see the south coast glittering on one side and the highland tea estates rolling away on the other, a panorama that […]
Ella
Ella is the beloved heart of Sri Lanka’s hill country, a small, spirited mountain town perched at an elevation of 1,000 metres, surrounded by rolling tea estates and framed by the dramatic Ella Gap that offers sweeping views to the distant coastal plains. The town has earned a passionate following among travellers drawn by its […]