PLACES TO EXPLORE

Sri Lanka compresses an astonishing diversity of landscape and culture into a landmass smaller than Ireland. Within a few hours’ drive you can move from ancient kingdoms carved in stone to rainforests dripping with endemic birdlife, from surf towns to elephant corridors, from colonial forts to cloud-wrapped tea estates. Each region holds its own character, rhythm and reason to arrive slowly.

Nuwara Eliya

Sri Lanka’s highest town was designed by British planters as a Little England at altitude – Georgian bungalows, a racecourse, hedge-rowed gardens and a climate cold enough that open fires are standard at colonial-era hotels. The surrounding tea landscape is among the most photographically dense in Asia: emerald terraces rising into cloud, pluckers in bright saris moving through rows of chest-height bushes.

Nuwara Eliya

Nuwara Eliya

Nuwara Eliya

Nuwara Eliya