Adam’s Peak
Adam’s Peak is a mountain of 2,243 metres that holds religious significance for Sri Lanka’s Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities alike, each of whom attributes the mysterious footprint-shaped indentation at the summit to their own sacred tradition. The pre-dawn pilgrimage climb – typically undertaken between December and May when thousands of devotees and travellers […]
Knuckles Mountain Range
The Knuckles Mountain Range is a UNESCO World Heritage wilderness of biodiversity and rugged natural beauty, stretching across central Sri Lanka in a series of misty peaks, cloud forests and cascading waterfalls. The range supports endemic plant and animal species, including rare amphibians, endemic birds and plants, making it a paradise for naturalists and birdwatchers. […]
Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya, known as ‘Little England’, is a hill station town at 1,868 metres that retains a charming colonial character shaped by the British tea planters who built it – complete with Tudor-style architecture, a racecourse, a golf club and manicured English gardens. The surrounding landscape is an unbroken sea of immaculate tea estates that […]
Horton Plains
Horton Plains National Park is a beautiful high-altitude plateau at nearly 2,200 metres above sea level, blanketed in montane grassland, cloud forest and patches of stunted jungle rich with endemic wildlife. The park’s centrepiece is World’s End, where, on clear mornings before the mist rolls in, the views extend across the southern lowlands to the […]
Ella
Ella is a small mountain town in Sri Lanka’s highlands that has captured the imagination of travellers from around the world with its landscape of emerald tea estates, deep valley gorges and mist-wrapped peaks. The famous Nine Arch Bridge, a colonial-era masterpiece of stone engineering framed by jungle and tea bushes, is one of the […]