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The Hill Country
The Hill Country Highlights
Colombo to Kandy
Kandy
Around Kandy
Knuckles Range
Kitulgala
Adam's Peak (Sri Pada)
Kandy to Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya
Horton Plains National Park & World's End
Belihul Oya
Haputale
Bandarawela
Ella
Around Ella
Wellawaya
Uda Walawe National Park
Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Ratnapura
The Hill Country in Colour
The Hill Country
Why Go?
Sri Lanka's Hill Country is the island at its most scenic, a mist-wrapped land of emerald peaks and stupendous views, of hillsides carpeted with tea plantations and graced by astonishing waterfalls. This is a place where you can wear a fleece in the daytime and cuddle up beside a log fire in the evening. Where you can enjoy a memorable meal in the eternal city of Kandy or at a roadside shack in lovely Ella. A region where you can walk to the end of the world, stand in the footsteps of the Buddha and be surrounded by a hundred wild elephants. Ride a train utterly bewitched by the vistas. Paddle a raft down a raging river. Enjoy the drumbeat of traditional dance and then savour the silence on a lonely mountaintop.
When to Go
- Jan Perfect for clear days, crisp nights and the pilgrimage up Adam’s Peak.
- Apr The Sinhalese New Year means horse racing and a hectic social calendar in Nuwara Eliya.
- Jul–Aug Rain showers do little to deter the crowds who gather for the spectacular Kandy Esala Perahera festival.
Best Places to Eat
A Matey Hut
A Sharon Inn
A High Tea at the Grand
A Hill Club
Best Places to Sleep
A Rainforest
A Chamodya Homestay
A Baramba House
A Tea Trails
A Waterfall Homestay
A Clock Inn Kandy
The Hill Country Highlights
1 Horton Plains Hiking across a high plateau to the lofty viewpoint of World's End.
2 Nuwara Eliya Taking high tea or sipping a G&T in an atmospheric colonial-era hotel.
3 Adam’s Peak Joining devout pilgrims and ascending the sacred mountain, Sri Pada, by flickering torchlight.
4 The Hill Railways Travelling on a sc...
Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka's Top 20
- Need to Know
- First Time Sri Lanka
- What's New
- If You Like
- Month by Month
- Itineraries
- Eat & Drink Like a Local
- Beaches & Activities
- National Parks & Safaris
- Travel with Children
- Regions at a Glance
- Colombo
- The West Coast
- The South
- The Hill Country
- The Ancient Cities
- The East
- Jaffna & the North
- Understand Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka Today
- History
- Environmental Issues
- The People of Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan Tea
- Directory AZ
- Transport
- Health
- Language
- Behind the Scenes
- Our Writers