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Nuwara Eliya

Hill Country

Nuwara Eliya

England transplanted to the tropics — cricket, tea and cold mountain mornings.

At 1,868 metres, Nuwara Eliya is Sri Lanka's highest city. The British planted it as a hill station and something of their influence endures: a Tudor-style post office, a racecourse, a colonial hotel with working fireplaces. But the surrounding landscape is purely Sri Lankan — infinite rows of tea bushes rolling over misty hills, picked each morning by women in bright saris whose nimble hands are the origin of every cup.

Nuwara Eliya

Hill Country, Sri Lanka