Knuckles Mountain Range
The Knuckles Mountain Range is one of Sri Lanka’s most spectacular and biodiverse wilderness areas, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The range encompasses a remarkable range of ecosystems within a relatively compact area: semi-evergreen forests, cloud forests, grasslands, river valleys and waterfalls that cascade through jungle gorges in a continuous display of natural theatre. […]
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is Sri Lanka’s most evocative colonial hill station, a town of mock-Tudor architecture, clipped hedgerows and rose gardens that earned its nickname ‘Little England’ from the British planters and administrators who built their retreat from the tropical heat here in the 19th century. At nearly 1,900 metres above sea level, the air is […]
Horton Plains
Horton Plains National Park is one of Sri Lanka’s most ecologically significant and visually dramatic highland destinations. The park is home to endemic species found nowhere else on earth, including the purple-faced langur, the Sri Lankan leopard and an array of highland birds that draw naturalists from across the world. The World’s End viewpoint, a […]
Haputale
Haputale is a highland ridge town of quiet, luminous beauty that sits at over 1,400 metres above sea level on a narrow spine of land where the hill country drops away to the southern plains on one side and the Uva Basin on the other. On clear mornings, the views from Haputale’s edge extend to […]
Ella
Ella is the jewel of Sri Lanka’s hill country, a small mountain village perched at the edge of a dramatic escarpment, surrounded by tea plantations and framed by the iconic gap in the hills through which the plains far below are visible on clear days. The nine-arch bridge, a colonial-era railway viaduct of sweeping elegance, […]