Knuckles Mountain Range

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.

Knuckles Mountain Range

The Knuckles Conservation Forest is named for the fist-shaped ridgeline visible from the Kandy plain – and its interior is a genuinely challenging, ecologically exceptional highland landscape of waterfalls, cloud forest patches, traditional mountain villages and streams that have never been commercially developed. It is among the least-infrastructure-heavy trekking destinations in South Asia.