Eco Friendly Adventures
Adam’s Peak, towering over southern Sri Lanka, has long been a pilgrimage site for many faiths. Adventurers often start the 4-mile ascent at night to reach the Peak at dawn, when the sun casts a triangular shadow of the Peak onto the misty clouds and plains below.
It is not the wildlife but the scenery and the hike to the World’s End, a stunning viewpoint at the very edge of the hill country, where the cliffs suddenly fall away that is the focus of the Horton Plains National Park, a bleak, windswept, misty and forbidding landscape often enveloped in thick clouds and rain.
Step into the heart of Sri Lanka’s last tract of undisturbed tropical rainforest and walk through muddy paths across streams, see the wonders of nature and its surroundings under a canopy of intertwined trees and ferns, humming with the drone of cicadas and the chirping of birds.
Dramatically surrounded by sheer-sided, low wooded hills on either side, the village of Kitulgala serves as a base for boat rides to the Kitulgala Forest Reserve, a lush, scenic escape for hikes through towering trees, dense fern-filled trails and the soothing sounds of nature to hidden waterfalls.
From its cascading waterfalls to tea plantations, the grand post office with its striking clock tower, toy-town ambience, and rose-tinted English country village feel, everything in Nuwara Eliya’s cool climes is postcard-perfect.
From strolls in rolling green tea plantations and panoramic hiking trails to Little Adam’s Peak and Ella Rock, to scenic railways crossing the nine-arch bridge, awe-inspiring sunrises and sunsets through the Ella Gap, the legends of King Ravana, delightful food, and wonderful people, the small town of Ella is a complete package.