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 the very coast, a sweep of terrain that encompasses tea estates, cloud forest, paddy fields and the distant shimmer of the ocean far below.