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 produce some of the world’s finest high-grown Ceylon tea, and a visit to a working tea factory is one of the most educational and engaging experiences the hill country has to offer.
