COOL CLIMES & TEA PLANTATIONS Sri Lanka always enchants visitors with its legendary natural beauty and variety. Classically tropical in the lowlands, high altitudes in its central mountains produce wondrous contrasts in landscape and climate, endowing this small island with the world’s tenth richest biodiversity. Lying slightly south of its center, Sri Lanka’s highlands reach a height of 2500 metres and have a magical, dramatic and haunting beauty. Mountain ranges and valleys, steep peaks, deep chasms and dizzy precipices, mist-hung tea plantations and tumultuous waterfalls combine and contrast picturesquely in a paradise for nature-lovers, eco-tourists and everyone else.

Nuwara Eliya -   Bandarawela -   Haputale -   Ella -   Hortan Plains -   Hakgala -   World's End-   Adam's Peak-   Adisham Monastery-	Nuwara Eliya -Sri Lanka’s premier hill-resort is renown for its cool, invigorating climate (average temperature around 16°C ) and is picturesquely located on the shores of Lake Gregory 6187ft.(1892m) above the sea level, in a  prime tea-growing district. Set up and developed as an English village and health resort by 19th century British colonial settlers, its older buildings such as the post office, Holy Trinity Church, The Grand Hotel, The Hill Club, vintage hotels and houses and the Golf Club have old English architecture, pretty flower-gardens and great nostalgic charm. The Victoria Park is at its best from January to April, when it is blazed with “English Garden” flowers. Sri Lanka’s highest mountain Piduruthalagala (8282 feet) is located here. Nuwara Eliy also has one of the finest 18 holes Golf Course in south Asia Bandarawela - Bandaraawela is a picturesque town and is surrounded by lush, green countryside and spectacular scenery. As a busy market town it is excellent for shopping. And there are some cultural sites: temples, colonial buildings and tea plantations. The elevation is 1200m resulting in a nice average daily temperature of 21°C. Haputale - 12 km from Bandarawela is cool, bracing Haputale, at an elevation of 1400m and surrounded by misty tea plantations and is famous for its panoramas across the Haputale pass to Southern plains and glimpses of the distant sea. Ella - 975m above the sea level in the leeward hills, has a mild, cool climate. The Ella Gap is a dramatic rift in the Southern mountain wall, with  a stunning panorama of the plains bellow and even a far-off glimpse of an Indian Ocean light house on clear evenings. The Rawana Ella falls (54m), is another spectacular. Ella is a popular paragliding and adventure destination.