Sri Lanka
A 10-day trip to Ella & the Central Highlands, Sri Lanka
Emerald tea terraces, mountain gap trails, and the slow climb of colonial narrow-gauge rail.
Rising steeply out of Sri Lanka's tropical lowlands, the Central Highlands span the cloud-swept plateaus of Horton Plains, the colonial estates of Nuwara Eliya, and the jagged gap around Ella. This is the island's cool-climate sanctuary, where life slows to the cadence of the blue hill country train, hillside tea pluckers, and ridgeline trails framed by eucalyptus and mist.
Trip length
10 days
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