Horton Plains Trek & World’s End Plateau
Horton Plains is a high-altitude plateau at 2,100 metres above sea level – a protected national park of cloud forest and open grassland in the central highlands. The trail to World’s End is the reason most people come: a 9km circular walk through montane forest and open moorland that ends at a sheer escarpment with […]
Scenic Train Journey – Kandy To Ella
The Kandy to Ella railway line through the central highlands is one of the genuinely great train journeys of Asia – not because of its speed or its luxury, but because of what it passes through. The train leaves Kandy and climbs steadily into the estates, through the first tunnel and the moment the line […]
Little Adam’s Peak & Nine Arch Bridge Hike, Ella
Ella is arguably the most scenically concentrated small town in Sri Lanka – within a 5km radius you have Little Adam’s Peak, a 45-minute return hike through a working tea estate with wide valley views, the Nine Arch Bridge, a colonial-era stone viaduct deep in the forest most dramatically seen as a local train crosses […]