Overview
Nuwara Eliya favored ‘Little England’, this genteel highland community does have a rose-tinted, vaguely British-country-village feel to it, with its colonial-era bungalows, Tudor-style hotels, well-tended hedgerows, and pretty gardens. Indeed, Nuwara Eliya was once was the favored cool-climate escape for the hard-working and hard-drinking English and Scottish pioneers of Sri Lanka’s tea industry. It is a city in the tea country hills of central Sri Lanka. The naturally landscaped Hakgala Botanical Gardens displays roses and tree ferns, and shelters monkeys and blue magpies. Nearby Seetha Amman Temple, a colorful Hindu shrine is decorated with religious figures. Densely forested Galway’s Land National Park is a sanctuary for endemic and migratory bird species, including bulbuls and flycatchers.
Highlights
- Rose Garden include a dedicated rose garden with a vast assortment of rose varieties.
- Hakgala Botanic Gardens collection of both native and exotic plant species.
- Scenic Landscapes: Sri Lanka's train routes traverse diverse landscapes,
- From lush tea plantations to misty hill stations, coastal stretches, and serene countryside
- Tea Plantations Central Highlands is particularly panoramic views of tea plantations.
- Gregory Lake is a picturesque man-made lakE Scenic Beauty